Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Full reference: B. L. Clark and J. W. Durham. 1946. Eocene Faunas from the Department of Bolivar, Colombia. Geological Society of America Memoir 16:1-126
Belongs to Tellina (Moerella) according to B. L. Clark and J. W. Durham 1946
Sister taxa: Moerella calpix, Moerella declivis, Moerella dupliniana, Moerella macilenta, Moerella meropsis, Moerella securiclata, Moerella verdevilla, Tellina (Moerella) acalypta, Tellina (Moerella) acloneta, Tellina (Moerella) acosmita, Tellina (Moerella) agria, Tellina (Moerella) cloneta, Tellina (Moerella) ctenota, Tellina (Moerella) hypolispa, Tellina (Moerella) indifferens, Tellina (Moerella) petropolitana, Tellina (Moerella) piesa, Tellina (Moerella) subdonacialis
Type specimen: UCMP 34921, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Average measurements (in mm): shell 50.8 x 33.7