Venilicardia hunti Cox 1935 (clam)

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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