Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Full reference: P. S. Warren. 1933. New Coloradoan species from the Upper Peace River, British Columbia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 27:109-119
Belongs to Arctica according to P. S. Warren 1933
Sister taxa: Arctica africana, Arctica calabra, Arctica globosa, Arctica islandica, Arctica limpidiana, Arctica picteti, Arctica planata, Arctica provencialis, Arctica subanthooensis, Cyprina scutellaria, Cyprina occidentalis, Cyprina praerustica, Cyprina ivensi, Cyprina purae, Cyprina cordiformis, Cyprina lens, Cyprina escheri, Cyprina cuneata, Cyprina cancriniana, Cyprina iddingsi, Cyprina denmanensis
Type specimen: University of Alberta Geological Museum Ct. 542, a shell. Its type locality is Murray River (East Pine) [Kaskapu Fm], which is in a Turonian/Coniacian marine shale in the Kaskapau Formation of Canada.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (5: Alberta, British Columbia collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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