Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae

Alternative combination: Tellina (Moerella) calpix

Full reference: J. A. Gardner. 1943. Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199(A)

Belongs to Moerella according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008

Sister taxa: 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) colomnbiana, Tellina (Moerella) ctenota, Tellina (Moerella) hypolispa, Tellina (Moerella) indifferens, Tellina (Moerella) petropolitana, Tellina (Moerella) piesa, Tellina (Moerella) subdonacialis

Type specimen: USNM 325595, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 8.00 x 11.50