Vacunella novosemelica Muromtseva 1981 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Full reference: V. A. Muromtseva. 1981. Bivalvia. Permskie Otlozheniya Novoi Zemli 26-51

Belongs to Vacunella according to V. A. Muromtseva and V. A. Guskov 1984

See also Muromtseva 1981

Sister taxa: Vacunella camachoi, Vacunella curvata, Vacunella dawsonensis, Vacunella elongata, Vacunella lunulata, Vacunella oblonga, Vacunella praecurvata, Vacunella rostrata, Vacunella waterhousei

Type specimen: 594/11570. Its type locality is Mezhdusharsky Island, Sample 305b, Novaya Zemlya, which is in a Sakmarian marine siliciclastic in the Sokolov Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mezhdusharsky Island, Sample 305b, Novaya Zemlya

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