Wilkingia sericea Gemmellaro 1896 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Alternative combination: Allorisma sericea

Full reference: G. G. Gemmellaro. 1896. La Fauna de Calcari con Fusulina della Valle del Fiume Sosio nella Provincia di Palermo - Pelecypoda. Giornale di Scienze Naturali e Economiche 21:183-220

Belongs to Wilkingia according to M. E. Clapham 2015

See also Gemmellaro 1896

Sister taxa: Wilkingia abramovi, Wilkingia andrewsi, Wilkingia androsovi, Wilkingia anshunensis, Wilkingia bulkurensis, Wilkingia fengchengensis, Wilkingia guizhouensis, Wilkingia hainanensis, Wilkingia hubeiensis, Wilkingia inflata, Wilkingia kutorgana, Wilkingia lunulata, Wilkingia maxvillensis, Wilkingia mediterranea, Wilkingia neglecta, Wilkingia perelegans, Wilkingia pleuromyoides, Wilkingia regularis, Wilkingia rothi, Wilkingia terminale, Wilkingia terminalis, Wilkingia triangularis, Wilkingia verchojanica, Wilkingia walkeri, Wilkingia wyomingensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Pietra di Salomone, calcare grossolano, Sosio, which is in a Wordian carbonate limestone in Italy

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Pietra di Salomone, calcare grossolano, Sosio

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