Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Full reference: M. Y. Hassan. 1953. Tertiary faunas from Kap Brewstwer, East Greenland. Meddeleser om Grønland 111(5):1-42
Belongs to Cyprina according to M. Y. Hassan 1953
Sister taxa: Arctica africana, Arctica calabra, Arctica globosa, Arctica islandica, Arctica limpidiana, Arctica murrayensis, Arctica picteti, Arctica planata, Arctica provencialis, Arctica subanthooensis, Cyprina purae, Cyprina cancriniana, Cyprina occidentalis, Cyprina denmanensis, Cyprina iddingsi, Cyprina scutellaria, Cyprina lens, Cyprina cuneata, Cyprina ivensi, Cyprina cordiformis, Cyprina escheri
Type specimen: MMC 7422, a shell. Its type locality is Coeloma beds, Kap Brewster, which is in an Oligocene coastal sandstone in Greenland.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Coeloma beds, Kap Brewster
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