Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae

Alternative combinations: Praecardium clymeniae, Praecardium vetustum clymeniae

Full reference: L. Beushausen. 1895. Die Lamellibranchiaten des rheinischen Devon mit Ausschluss der Aviculiden. Abhandlungen der Königlich Preussichen geologischen Landesanstalt. 17:1-410

Belongs to Vetupraeca according to J. Nagel-Myers et al. 2008

See also Beushausen 1895 and Jux and Krath 1974

Sister taxa: Vetupraeca duplicata, Vetupraeca melletes, Vetupraeca vetusta

Type specimen: GZG 490-107, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bergisches Land (Rhenish Massif), Germany; Knoppenbiessen-beds (Devonian of Germany)

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