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
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (76), China (1), Italy (6), Japan (2), New Zealand (10), the Russian Federation (7), Thailand (1), United States (7: 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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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