Bivalvia - Venerida - Arcticidae
Full reference: O. S. Adegoke. 1977. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Ewekoro Formation (Paleocene) of Southwestern Nigeria. Bulletins of American Paleontology 71(295):1-379
Belongs to Arctica according to O. S. Adegoke 1977
Sister taxa: Arctica calabra, Arctica globosa, Arctica islandica, Arctica limpidiana, Arctica mediale, Arctica murrayensis, Arctica picteti, Arctica planata, Arctica provencialis, Arctica subanthooensis, Cyprina scutellaria, Cyprina cuneata, Cyprina praerustica, Cyprina escheri, Cyprina denmanensis, Cyprina occidentalis, Cyprina lens, Cyprina cancriniana, Cyprina iddingsi, Cyprina ivensi, Cyprina cordiformis, Cyprina purae
Type specimen: UIMG 529. Its type locality is Ewekoro Quarry, which is in a Selandian open shallow subtidal packstone in the Ewekoro Formation of Nigeria.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Ewekoro Quarry
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