Gervillia hanitschi Newton 1906 (oyster)

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae

Full reference: R. B. Newton. 1906. Notice of some fossils from Singapore discovered by John B. Scrivenor, FGS, geologist to the Federated Malay States. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade V 3:487-496

Belongs to Gervillia according to T. Kobayashi and M. Tamura 1968

See also Newton 1906

Sister taxa: Gervilleia (Angustella), Gervilleia arcuata, Gervilleia bosniaca, Gervilleia dissita, Gervilleia ensis, Gervilleia immatura, Gervilleia koatensis, Gervilleia latobica, Gervilleia meneghinii, Gervilleia modiola, Gervilleia regoi, Gervilleia scythica, Gervilleia ussurica, Gervillia (Cultriopsis), Gervillia (Gervillia), Gervillia alata, Gervillia alatior, Gervillia alberti, Gervillia albertii, Gervillia angulata, Gervillia bipartita, Gervillia bouei, Gervillia caudata, Gervillia cholla, Gervillia elipsoidalis, Gervillia faberi, Gervillia fraasi, Gervillia galeazzi, Gervillia gigantea, Gervillia heinemani, Gervillia inflata, Gervillia iraonensis, Gervillia joleaudi, Gervillia lamellosa, Gervillia lanpingensis, Gervillia latealata, Gervillia linearis, Gervillia longa, Gervillia mirabilis, Gervillia modiola, Gervillia modiolaeformis, Gervillia mytiloides, Gervillia paronai, Gervillia quadrata, Gervillia quadricostata, Gervillia radians, Gervillia rasori, Gervillia rostrata, Gervillia rothpletzi, Gervillia scrivenori, Gervillia sergipensis, Gervillia solenoidea, Gervillia subglobosa, Gervillia volanensis, Gervillia wagneri, Gervillia yunnanensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mount Guthrie, Tanjong Pagar, which is in a Triassic/Jurassic marine mudstone in the Jurong Formation of Singapore

Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mount Guthrie, Tanjong Pagar

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