Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1951. A Contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: B. Description of the Lamellibranchia from standard sections in the Rakni Nala and Zinda Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 235:311-482
Belongs to Vulsella according to F. E. Eames 1951
Sister taxa: Vulsella angusta, Vulsella clarki, Vulsella deperdita, Vulsella grandicubitus, Vulsella laevigata, Vulsella legumen, Vulsella vulsella, Vulsella walleri
Type specimen: L. 79885, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.1986, Rakhi Nala, which is in a Bartonian marine shale in the Drazinda Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Vulsella pakistanica in the database
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