Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae

Alternative combination: Gari (Psammocola) alata

Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1866. Section I. Tertiary Invertebrate Fossils. Part I. Description of New Species. Palaeontology of California, Volume II, Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils 1-38

Belongs to Nuttallia according to E. J. Moore 2003

See also Clark 1915 and Gabb 1866

Sister taxa: Nuttallia howardi, Nuttallia nuttallii, Nuttallia salina, Nuttallia toulai, Nuttallia townsendensis, Sanguinolaria (Nuttallia) orcutti

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nuttallia alata in the database

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