Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: L.B. Kellum. 1926. Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (143)1-56

Belongs to Phacoides (Pseudomiltha) according to L.B. Kellum 1926

Sister taxa: Phacoides (Pseudomiltha) wongi, Pseudomiltha (Pseudomiltha), Pseudomiltha gigantea, Pseudomiltha ocalanus

Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 10655 (John Gilette Farm), Silverdale, Trent marl, Onslow Co., NC, which is in a Miocene marine marl/sandstone in the Trent Formation of North Carolina

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic