Polidevcia tulcumbensis Campbell and Engel 1963 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae

Full reference: K. S. W. Campbell and B. A. Engel. 1963. The faunas of the Tournaisian Tulcumba Sandstone and its members in the Werrie and Belvue synclines, New South Wales. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 10(1):55-122

Belongs to Polidevcia according to K. S. W. Campbell and B. A. Engel 1963

Sister taxa: Polidevcia abrupta, Polidevcia aequilata, Polidevcia antequadrata, Polidevcia arata, Polidevcia arctura, Polidevcia bellistriata, Polidevcia bicarinata, Polidevcia browni, Polidevcia cryptica, Polidevcia flexuosa, Polidevcia kasanensis, Polidevcia kolyvanica, Polidevcia lunulata, Polidevcia lyonsensis, Polidevcia magna, Polidevcia nodulosa, Polidevcia obesa, Polidevcia ovata, Polidevcia sharmani, Polidevcia stevensiana, Polidevcia thomasi, Polidevcia vorgaschorica, Polidevcia zabaikalica

Type specimen: F.7583 U.N.E., a shell. Its type locality is L76, Rangari Section, 6.2 km north, 2.5 km east of Kelvin, which is in a Hastarian carbonate limestone in the Rangari limestone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Australia (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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