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 plura, Nucula (Acila) ermanni, 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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