Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Alternative combination: Palaearca bulla
Full reference: J. W. Salter. 1865. Appendix. On the fossils of North Wales. The Geology of North Wales. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology 3:241-363
Belongs to Vanuxemia according to S.P. Tunnicliff 1987
See also Salter 1865
Sister taxa: Vanuxemia bayfieldi, Vanuxemia decipiens, Vanuxemia inconstans, Vanuxemia kagawongensis, Vanuxemia limbata, Vanuxemia odhneri, Vanuxemia waynesvillensis
Type specimen: BGS GSM 12397, a shell. Its type locality is Allt-Tair-ffynon Beds at Allt y Gadair, which is in a Longvillian marine mudstone in the Allt-Tair-Ffynnon Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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