Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae

Full reference: T. R. Waller. 2011. Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic. 24. Propeamussidae and Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea) of the Cibao Valley. Bulletins of American Paleontology (381)1-198

Belongs to Antillipecten according to T. R. Waller 2011

Sister taxa: Antillipecten alumensis, Antillipecten anguillensis, Antillipecten antillarum, Antillipecten cercadicus, Antillipecten flintensis, Antillipecten guanicus, Antillipecten janicoensis, Antillipecten microlineatus, Antillipecten reynali, Antillipecten vaun, Antillipecten willobianus

Type specimen: USNM 541916, a shell. Its type locality is NMB Loc. 16835 - Río Cano [Cercado Fm], which is in a Messinian coastal sandstone/limestone in the Cercado Formation of the Dominican Republic.

Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 26.0 x 24.0