Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Alternative combinations: Phacoides (Myrtea) taffana, Phacoides taffana

Full reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1916. Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 9(17):363-524

Belongs to Myrtea (Myrtea) according to E. J. Moore 1988

See also Dickerson 1916 and Hanna 1927

Sister taxa: Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta, Myrtaea (Myrtaea) enischna, Myrtaea (Myrtaea) limoniana, Myrtea (Myrtea) scopularis, Myrtea (Myrtea) taylorensis, Myrtea (Myrtea) vicksburgensis

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. 672, Parsons Peak (Eocene of California)

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