Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Alternative combination: Chione sechuntana

Full reference: G. D. Hanna and M. C. Israelsky. 1925. Contributions to the Tertiary paleontology of Peru. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 14(2):37-75

Belongs to Chione (Chionopsis) according to W. P. Woodring 1982

See also Hanna and Israelsky 1925

Sister taxa: Chione (Chionopsis) angelana, Chione (Chionopsis) bainbridgensis, Chione (Chionopsis) eurylopas, Chione (Chionopsis) jamaniana, Chione (Chionopsis) manabia, Chione (Chionopsis) posorjensis, Chione (Chionopsis) propinqua, Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni, Chione (Chionopsis) semiplicata, Chione (Chionopsis) spiekeri, Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum, Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis, Chione (Chionopsis) traftoni, Chione (Chionopsis) variabilis, Chione (Chionopsis) venadoensis, Chione (Chionopsis) wiedenmayeri, Chionopsis (Puberella), Chionopsis amathusia, Chionopsis crenifera, Chionopsis gnidia, Chionopsis lilacina, Chionopsis munsterii, Chionopsis ornatissima, Chionopsis pubera, Chionopsis pulicaria, Chionopsis woodwardi

Type specimen: CAS 1724, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 339, Boca Pan [Zorritos Fm], which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Zorritos Formation of Peru.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at CAS Loc. 339, Boca Pan [Zorritos Fm]

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