Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative combinations: Aphrodina major, Calva bowersiana, Cucullaea bowersiana, Trigonocallista bowersiana, Trigonocallista major
Synonyms: Meretrix coronada Anderson 1958, Meretrix nitida major Packard 1922
Full reference: J. G. Cooper. 1894. Catalogue of Californian fossils. (Parts II, III, IV, and V). California State Mining Bureau Bulletin No. 4 1-65
Belongs to Calva (Egelicalva) according to L. R. Saul and W. P. Popenoe 1992
See also Anderson 1902, Anderson 1958, Cooper 1894, Elder and Saul 1993, Packard 1922, Popenoe 1937, Popenoe 1942 and Schoellhamer et al. 1981
Sister taxa: Calva (Egelicalva) buttensis, Calva (Egelicalva) byblidis, Calva (Egelicalva) crassa, Calva (Egelicalva) nitida, Calva (Egelicalva) spissa, Calva (Egelicalva) taffi
Type specimens:
- Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana: UCMP 12279
- Meretrix coronada: UCMP 12306, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 2167, Santa Ana Mountains, which is in a Campanian/Campanian marine horizon in the Williams Formation of California.
- Meretrix nitida major: UCMP 12279.
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (28: California, Washington collections)
Total: 28 collections including 29 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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