Polidevcia antequadrata Waterhouse 1964 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1964. Palaeotaxodont bivalves from the Permian of New Zealand. Palaeontology 7(4):630-655

Belongs to Polidevcia according to J. B. Waterhouse 1987

See also Waterhouse 1980

Sister taxa: Polidevcia abrupta, Polidevcia aequilata, Polidevcia arata, Polidevcia arctura, Polidevcia bellistriata, Polidevcia bicarinata, Polidevcia browni, Polidevcia cryptica, Polidevcia flexuosa, Polidevcia kasanensis, Polidevcia kolyvanica, Polidevcia lunulata, Polidevcia lyonsensis, Polidevcia magna, Polidevcia nodulosa, Polidevcia obesa, Polidevcia ovata, Polidevcia sharmani, Polidevcia stevensiana, Polidevcia thomasi, Polidevcia tulcumbensis, Polidevcia vorgaschorica, Polidevcia zabaikalica

Type specimen: NZGS TM3441. Its type locality is GS6071, Letham Burn (D44/f9622), which is in a Capitanian marine horizon in the Mangarewa Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (2 collections), New Zealand (4)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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