Pseudocorbula shanglanensis Guo 1985 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Myophoricardiidae

Full reference: F. X. Guo. 1985. Fossil Bivalves of Yunnan 1-319

Belongs to Pseudocorbula according to F. X. Guo 1985

Sister taxa: Pseudocorbula gregaria, Pseudocorbula gregaroides, Pseudocorbula incrassata, Pseudocorbula kharaulakhensis, Pseudocorbula nuculiformis, Pseudocorbula pseudogregaria, Pseudocorbula sandbergeri

Type specimen: IVy 0208, a valve (Left valve, internal mold). Its type locality is Shanglan, Jianchuan County, which is in an Anisian marine horizon in the Shanglan Formation of China.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Shanglan, Jianchuan County

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