†Venilicardia hunti Cox 1935 (clam)
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Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Full reference: L. R. Cox. 1935. Jurassic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 148-197
Belongs to Venilicardia according to L. R. Cox 1935
Sister taxa: Cyprina (Venilicardia) lagamensis, Venilicardia (Venilicyprina)
Type specimen: Its type locality is Daghani, bed 217, which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian shallow subtidal limestone in the Bihen Limestone Formation of Somalia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1 collection), Somalia (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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