Gujocardita oviformis Nakazawa and Newell 1968 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae

Full reference: K. Nakazawa and N.D. Newell. 1968. Permian bivalves of Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Geology and Mineralogy 35(1):1-108

Belongs to Gujocardita according to K. Nakazawa and N.D. Newell 1968

Sister taxa: Gujocardita curta, Gujocardita elliptica, Gujocardita obesa, Gujocardita oblonga, Gujocardita parviradiatus, Gujocardita subquadrata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kawanishi Primary School, Gujo, Oe-cho, Kyoto Prefecture, which is in a Changhsingian marine shale in the Gujo Formation of Japan

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Kawanishi Primary School, Gujo, Oe-cho, Kyoto Prefecture

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