Vacunella dawsonensis Runnegar 1967 (clam)

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

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