Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Alternative combination: Arca textrina
Full reference: T. W. Stanton. 1895. Contributions to the Cretaceous paleontology of the Pacific coast. : The fauna of the Knoxville. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 133:1-132
Belongs to Nemodon according to P. W. Reinhart 1937
See also Anderson 1938 and Stanton 1895
Sister taxa: Nemodon (Nemodon), Nemodon brevifrons, Nemodon canadensis, Nemodon eufaulensis, Nemodon grandis, Nemodon vancouverensis, Parallelodon (Nemodon) nuarsense
Type specimen: USNM 23045
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Northwest of Stephenson Place, Cold Ford of Cottonwood Creek (Cretaceous of California)
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