Calcicanicularia glabra Waterhouse 1983 (file clam)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1983. Systematic description of Permian brachiopods, bivalves and gastropods below Wall Sandstone Member, northern Bowen Basin. Papers - Department of Geology, University of Queensland 10(3):155-179

Belongs to Calcicanicularia according to J. B. Waterhouse 1983

Sister taxon: Calcicanicularia antecostata

Type specimen: UQ F70073, a shell. Its type locality is UQ L3725, Exmoor Homestead, which is in an Artinskian marine sandstone/siltstone in the Tiverton Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UQ L3725, Exmoor Homestead

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