Vacunella rostrata Nakazawa and Newell 1968 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

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 Vacunella according to K. Nakazawa and N.D. Newell 1968

Sister taxa: Vacunella camachoi, Vacunella curvata, Vacunella dawsonensis, Vacunella elongata, Vacunella lunulata, Vacunella novosemelica, Vacunella oblonga, Vacunella praecurvata, Vacunella waterhousei

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 deep infaunal suspension feeder

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

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