Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Alternative combination: Psammobia lintea
Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1848. Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3:280-299
Belongs to Gari according to Conrad 1865
See also Conrad 1848, Hendy et al. 2008, Huber et al. 2015 and Richards 1962
Sister taxa: Gari (Amphipsammus), Gari (Gari), Gari (Garum), Gari (Gobraeus), Gari (Grammatomya), Gari (Kermadysmea), Gari (Psammobella), Gari (Psammobia), Gari (Psammocola), Gari (Psammodonax), Gari (Psammoica), Gari (Psammotaena), Gari aequalis, Gari brouwersae, Gari elliptica, Gari maculosa, Gari martini, Gari olequahensis, Gari squamosa, Gari weinkauffi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Vicksburg, which is in a Rupelian marine marl in the Byram Marl Formation of Mississippi
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Vicksburg
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