Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Full reference: A. A. Olsson. 1931. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(63)
Belongs to Acila according to A. A. Olsson 1931
Sister taxa: Acila (Acila), Acila (Truncacila), Acila nehalemensis, Acila plura, Nucula (Acila) ermanni, Nucula (Acila) hamiltonensis, Nucula (Acila) mirabilis, Nucula (Acila) nelsoni, Nucula (Acila) packardi, Nucula (Acila) pugetensis, Nucula (Acila) yakatagensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Belen and Pajarabobo, which is in a Priabonian deep-water limestone/shale in the Cone Hill Formation of Peru
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Belen and Pajarabobo
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