Solemya funingensis Guo 1985 (Awning Clam)

Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae

Full reference: F. X. Guo. 1985. Fossil Bivalves of Yunnan 1-319

Belongs to Solemya according to F. X. Guo 1985

Sister taxa: Solemya (Austrosolemya), Solemya (Petrasma), Solemya (Pseudacharax), Solemya (Solemya), Solemya (Solemyarina), Solemya (Zesolemya), Solemya abbreviata, Solemya alabamensis, Solemya insignifica, Solemya lamarckiana, Solemya lomitensis, Solemya peteri, Solemya petricoloides, Solemya subplicata, Solemya sulcifera, Solemya togata, Solenomya semseyana, Solenomya sharonensis, Solenomya translineata, Solenomya (Janeia) trapezoides, Solemya (Janeia) tibetica, Solemya (Janeia) minuta, Janeia elliptica

Type specimen: IVy 0186, a valve (Left valve, external mold). Its type locality is Jiuzhai Cliff, Funing County, which is in an Anisian marine horizon in the Baifeng Formation of China.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal deposit feeder-chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Jiuzhai Cliff, Funing County

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