Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Full reference: C. E. Weaver. 1912. A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington. Washington Geological Survey Bulletin 15:1-80
Belongs to Meretrix according to C. E. Weaver 1912
Sister taxa: Meretrix (Cordiopsis), Meretrix bosworthi, Meretrix cornelli, Meretrix decisa, Meretrix desvauxi, Meretrix gabbi, Meretrix hikoshimensis, Meretrix indica, Meretrix longa, Meretrix macbeani, Meretrix marshana, Meretrix mortoni, Meretrix negritosensis, Meretrix neusensis, Meretrix nuttalliopsis, Meretrix persica, Meretrix pittsburgensis, Meretrix profunda, Meretrix pseudomeretrix, Meretrix shantii, Meretrix stantoni, Meretrix subimpressa, Meretrix sylvaerupis, Meretrix tularana, Meretrix uniomeris, Meretrix yoakumi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Olequah Creek, Cantwell place, which is in a Bartonian marine horizon in the Cowlitz Formation of Washington
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Olequah Creek, Cantwell place
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