Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
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 Lamelliconcha according to A. A. Olsson 1931
Sister taxa: Hysteroconcha (Lamelliconcha) protophilippinarum, Lamelliconcha acutecostata, Lamelliconcha aequicincta, Lamelliconcha anona, Lamelliconcha boucaryensis, Lamelliconcha casta, Lamelliconcha charanica, Lamelliconcha circinata, Lamelliconcha clarki, Lamelliconcha concinna, Lamelliconcha cora, Lamelliconcha guppyana, Lamelliconcha hillii, Lamelliconcha kawadai, Lamelliconcha labreana, Lamelliconcha mellisa, Lamelliconcha musanica, Lamelliconcha negritensis, Lamelliconcha parinensis, Lamelliconcha paytensis, Lamelliconcha samanensis, Lamelliconcha saponaria, Lamelliconcha tortuosus, Lamelliconcha unicolor, Lamelliconcha vinaceus, Lamelliconcha wolfi, Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) baldryi, Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) eocenica
Type specimen: Its type locality is 3-4 miles north of Casa Saman, Chira Valley, which is in a Priabonian marine shale/ash in the Chira Formation of Peru
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at 3-4 miles north of Casa Saman, Chira Valley
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