Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Alternative combination: Australomya dawsonensis
Full reference: B. Runnegar. 1967. Desmodont bivalves from the Permian of eastern Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 96:1-108
Belongs to Vacunella according to J. B. Waterhouse 1987
See also Muromtseva and Guskov 1984, Runnegar 1967 and Runnegar 1969
Sister taxa: Vacunella camachoi, Vacunella curvata, Vacunella elongata, Vacunella lunulata, Vacunella novosemelica, Vacunella oblonga, Vacunella praecurvata, Vacunella rostrata, Vacunella waterhousei
Type specimen: UQ F51000, a shell. Its type locality is Quarry along highway north of Theodore, Bowen Basin, which is in a Wuchiapingian coastal siliciclastic in the Flat Top Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (20 collections), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 21 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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