Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative combination: Agriopoma mancorensis
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 Pitar according to M. C. Perrilliat 1992
See also Olsson 1931
Sister taxa: Meretrix (Pitar) dalikiensis, Meretrix (Pitar) elliptica, Pitar (Calpitaria), Pitar (Chionella), Pitar (Cordiopsis), Pitar (Costellipitar), Pitar (Hyphantosoma), Pitar (Lamelliconcha), Pitar (Meisenia), Pitar (Nanopitar), Pitar (Omnivenus), Pitar (Paradione), Pitar (Pitar), Pitar (Pitar) nuttali, Pitar (Pitarenus), Pitar (Pitarina), Pitar addicotti, Pitar albidus, Pitar barbarensis, Pitar baylii, Pitar cedroensis, Pitar colchaguana, Pitar cordatus, Pitar diabloensis, Pitar hataii, Pitar kotoi, Pitar morrhuanus, Pitar murphyi, Pitar ozakii, Pitar palmeri, Pitar parisiensis, Pitar petropolitanus, Pitar porrecta, Pitar quadratus, Pitar rostratus, Pitar salanga, Pitar sciaena, Pitar securiformis, Pitar simpsoni, Pitar sorachiensis, Pitar stocki, Pitar subarestus, Pitar transversus, Pitar uvasana, Pitar vancouverensis, Cytherea (Caryatis) pratti
Type specimen: Its type locality is Mancora Fm, which is in an Eocene marine sandstone/shale in the Mancora Formation of Peru
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Peru (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Ecuador (1), Peru (3)
• Eocene of Peru (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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