Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Full reference: O. S. Adegoke. 1977. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Ewekoro Formation (Paleocene) of Southwestern Nigeria. Bulletins of American Paleontology 71(295):1-379
Belongs to Arctica according to O. S. Adegoke 1977
Sister taxa: Arctica calabra, Arctica globosa, Arctica islandica, Arctica limpidiana, Arctica murrayensis, Arctica picteti, Arctica planata, Arctica provencialis, Arctica subanthooensis, Cyprina escheri, Cyprina praerustica, Cyprina occidentalis, Cyprina scutellaria, Cyprina cancriniana, Cyprina lens, Cyprina iddingsi, Cyprina ivensi, Cyprina cordiformis, Cyprina purae, Cyprina cuneata, Cyprina denmanensis
Type specimen: UIMG 529. Its type locality is Ewekoro Quarry, which is in a Selandian open shallow subtidal packstone in the Ewekoro Formation of Nigeria.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Ewekoro Quarry
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