Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Alternative combination: Ctena microimbricata

Full reference: J. A. Gardner. 1943. Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199(A):1-178

Belongs to Ctena (Ctena) according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008

See also Gardner 1943

Sister taxa: Ctena (Ctena) divergens, Ctena (Ctena) magnoliana, Ctena (Ctena) mexicana, Ctena (Ctena) speciosa

Type specimen: USNM 325540, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Natural Well - Duplin Formation (Pliocene of North Carolina)

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