Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae

Alternative combinations: Septifer margaritana, Septifer margaritanus

Full reference: J. O. Nomland. 1917. Fauna of the Santa Margarita beds in the North Coalinga region of California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10(18):293-326

Belongs to Brachidontes (Scolimytilus) according to E. J. Moore 1983

See also Grant, IV and Gale 1931 and Nomland 1917

Sister taxa: Brachidontes (Scolimytilus) multiradiatus, Brachidontes (Scolimytilus) subconvexus

Type specimen: UCMP 11310. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 2276, which is in a Miocene marine sandstone in the Santa Margarita Formation of California.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. 2276

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