Squamuliferipecten latispatia Waterhouse 1987 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Deltopectinidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 198(4-6):129-233

Belongs to Squamuliferipecten according to J. B. Waterhouse 1987

Sister taxa: Squamuliferipecten angulata, Squamuliferipecten extensus, Squamuliferipecten squamuliferus

Type specimen: UQ F74351, a valve (Left valve). Its type locality is UQ L4560, Buffel Hill, Cracow Homestead, which is in an Artinskian coastal siliciclastic in the Buffel Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UQ L4560, Buffel Hill, Cracow Homestead

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