Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Full reference: B. L. Clark. 1918. The San Lorenzo series of Middle California. a stratigraphic and paleontologic study of the San Lorenzo Oligocene series of the general region of Mount Diablo, California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 11(2):45-234
Belongs to Cyathodonta according to B. L. Clark 1918
Sister taxa: Cyathodonta dolicha, Cyathodonta dubiosa, Cyathodonta gatunensis, Cyathodonta guadelupensis, Cyathodonta pedroana, Cyathodonta spenceri, Cyathodonta tristani, Cyathodonta undulata, Thracia (Cyathodonta) formosa, Thracia (Cyathodonta) taylorensis
Type specimen: UCMP 11131. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 1131, Walnut Creek, which is in an Oligocene marine horizon in California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. 1131, Walnut Creek
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