Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Full reference: J. O. Chiesa and H. H. Camacho. 2001. Invertebrados marino Eocenos de la parte de Río Negro, Argentina. Revista Española de Paleontología 16(2):299-316
Belongs to Panopea according to J. O. Chiesa and H. H. Camacho 2001
Sister taxa: Panopaea concentrica, Panopaea depressa, Panopaea elongata, Panopaea mackrothi, Panopaea montignyana, Panopaea orientalis, Panopaea remondii, Panopaea sahariensis, Panopaea toulai, Panopaea vaudini, Panope (Panope), Panope agnewi, Panope borealis, Panope californica, Panope elongatissima, Panope fuegensis, Panope gurgitis, Panope mclearni, Panope murrayensis, Panope shastacola, Panope subaequilateralis, Panope taylorensis, Panope tenuis, Panope torreyensis, Panope webbi, Panopea (Degrangia), Panopea (Myopsis), Panopea (Panopea), Panopea abbreviata, Panopea abrupta, Panopea akerlundi, Panopea aldrovandi, Panopea americana, Panopea anabarica, Panopea australis, Panopea bagualesia, Panopea bitruncata, Panopea brasiliensis, Panopea chiloensis, Panopea clausa, Panopea dockensis, Panopea eightsi, Panopea gastaldii, Panopea generosa, Panopea globosa, Panopea glycymeris, Panopea goldfussii, Panopea ibari, Panopea inaequivalvis, Panopea intermedia, Panopea kazakovae, Panopea kissoumi, Panopea nucleus, Panopea oblongata, Panopea parawhitfieldi, Panopea porrectoides, Panopea ramonensis, Panopea rathbuni, Panopea smithii, Panopea snohomishensis, Panopea thomasi, Panopea undatoides, Panopea whitfieldi, Panopea worthingtoni
Type specimen: CIRGEO-PI 2779, a shell. Its type locality is Río Foyel Fm - Estancia de Troncoso, which is in an Oligocene offshore shale in the Rio Foyel Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: stationary deep infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Río Foyel Fm - Estancia de Troncoso
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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