Vacunella Waterhouse 1965 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1965. Generic diagnoses for some burrowing bivalves of the Australian Permian. Malacologia 2:367-380

Parent taxon: Vacunellinae according to N. J. Morris et al. 1991

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Waterhouse 1965

Sister taxa: Cunavella, Myonia, Pachymyonia, Praemyonia

Subtaxa: Vacunella camachoi Vacunella curvata Vacunella dawsonensis Vacunella elongata Vacunella lunulata Vacunella novosemelica Vacunella oblonga Vacunella praecurvata Vacunella rostrata Vacunella waterhousei

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Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Leonard of United States (1: Utah collection)

• Permian of Argentina (1), Australia (76), China (1), Italy (6), Japan (2), New Zealand (10), the Russian Federation (7), Thailand (1), United States (6: Montana, Utah, Wyoming)

• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)

• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), United States (1: New mexico)

Total: 114 collections including 132 occurrences

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