Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae

Alternative combination: Glycymeris verticordia

Full reference: F. M. Anderson and G. D. Hanna. 1925. Fauna and stratigraphic relations of the Tejon Eocene at the type locality in Kern County, California. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 11:1-249

Belongs to Glycymeris (Tucetona) according to E. J. Moore 1983

See also Anderson and Hanna 1925

Sister taxa: Glycymeris (Tucetona) evermanni, Glycymeris (Tucetona) fresnoensis, Glycymeris (Tucetona) perrini, Glycymeris (Tucetona) ruckmani, Glycymeris (Tucetona) tenuimbricata, Tucetona (Bellaxinaea), Tucetona acuticostata, Tucetona angusticosta, Tucetona arata, Tucetona auriflua, Tucetona broadfooti, Tucetona castaneus, Tucetona convexus, Tucetona democraciana, Tucetona finlayi, Tucetona flabellata, Tucetona gealei, Tucetona hoylei, Tucetona lamyi, Tucetona laticostata, Tucetona lenticularis, Tucetona oculatus, Tucetona odhneri, Tucetona pectinata, Tucetona pectunculus, Tucetona sabinensis, Tucetona scalarisculpta, Tucetona sordida, Tucetona strigilata, Tucetona subtilis, Tucetona usiacurii

Type specimen: CAS 776. Its type locality is CAS loc. 245, Grapevine Canyon, which is in an Eocene marginal marine sandstone/shale in the Tejon Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at CAS loc. 245, Grapevine Canyon

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