Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae

Alternative combinations: Crassatellites lillisi, Eomeretrix lillisi

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 Crassatella according to E. J. Moore 2003

See also Dickerson 1916 and Vokes 1939

Sister taxa: Crassatella (Crassatella), Crassatella (Landinia), Crassatella antestriata, Crassatella aquiana, Crassatella arcacea, Crassatella astartiformis, Crassatella austriaca, Crassatella baudeti, Crassatella bosquetiana, Crassatella branneri, Crassatella carcarensis, Crassatella carmanahensis, Crassatella carolinensis, Crassatella caudata, Crassatella chargensis, Crassatella chiesai, Crassatella clarkensis, Crassatella claytonensis, Crassatella collina, Crassatella compacta, Crassatella compressa, Crassatella conradiana, Crassatella corioensis, Crassatella corrugata, Crassatella cowlitzensis, Crassatella cygnea, Crassatella dalli, Crassatella dennanti, Crassatella dennati, Crassatella densus, Crassatella desioi, Crassatella desmaresti, Crassatella desvauxi, Crassatella elongata, Crassatella eutawcolens, Crassatella evansii, Crassatella flexura, Crassatella fusca, Crassatella gamma, Crassatella haughtoni, Crassatella hauniensis, Crassatella hodgei, Crassatella kalitensis, Crassatella kroisbachensis, Crassatella lincolnensis, Crassatella lomana, Crassatella longior, Crassatella macrodonta, Crassatella manzourensis, Crassatella marrotiana, Crassatella meganosensis, Crassatella mercedensis, Crassatella merriami, Crassatella mulates, Crassatella neorhynchus, Crassatella numidica, Crassatella oenana, Crassatella patagonica, Crassatella pedroi, Crassatella perrini, Crassatella plumbea, Crassatella portelli, Crassatella radiata, Crassatella rafaeli, Crassatella rhomboidea, Crassatella rothii, Crassatella saulae, Crassatella scutellaria, Crassatella stewartvillensis, Crassatella stillwaterensis, Crassatella studleyi, Crassatella sulcata, Crassatella symmetrica, Crassatella texalta, Crassatella trapaquara, Crassatella tumidula, Crassatella unioides, Crassatella uvasana, Crassatella vadosa, Crassatella washingtoniana, Crassatella weaveri, Crassatella willcoxi, Crassatellites neusensis, Crassatellites inconspicuus, Crassatellites texana, Crassatellites asakuraensis, Crassatellites paramesus, Crassatellites berryi, Crassatellites camurus, Crassatellites exiguus, Crassatellites brainerdi, Crassatellites iheringi, Crassatellites (Crassatellites), Crassatellites negreetensis, Crassatellites yabei, Crassatellites maroimensis, Crassatellites matsuraensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is UCMP 1817, Urruttia Canyon-Salt Creek, which is in a Ypresian deep-water shale in the Lodo Formation of California

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UCMP 1817, Urruttia Canyon-Salt Creek

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