Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative combination: Trigonocallista buttensis
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378
Belongs to Calva (Egelicalva) according to L. R. Saul and W. P. Popenoe 1992
See also Anderson 1958
Sister taxa: Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana, Calva (Egelicalva) byblidis, Calva (Egelicalva) crassa, Calva (Egelicalva) nitida, Calva (Egelicalva) spissa, Calva (Egelicalva) taffi
Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS Loc27838, Chico Creek, which is in a Campanian marine sandstone in the Chico Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (8: Alaska, California collections)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
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