Praeundulomya subelongata Dickins 1963 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Full reference: J. M. Dickins. 1963. Permian pelecypods and gastropods from western Australia. Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics 63:1-203

Belongs to Praeundulomya according to J. P. Neves et al. 2014

See also Dickins 1963 and Ghosh 2003

Sister taxa: Praeundulomya concentrica, Praeundulomya dibica, Praeundulomya elongata, Praeundulomya gijigensis, Praeundulomya hakimensis, Praeundulomya kashmiricus, Praeundulomya leonidi, Praeundulomya petschorica

Type specimen: UWA 45281, a valve (Right valve). Its type locality is BMR PB8, Fossil Cliff, Irwin River Area, which is in a Sakmarian coastal siliciclastic in the Fossil Cliff Formation of Australia.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (5 collections), India (1)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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