Vacunella camachoi Rocha-Campos and de Carvalho 1975 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Full reference: A. C. Rocha-Campos and R. G. de Carvalho. 1975. Two new bivalves from the Permian "Eurydesma Fauna" of eastern Argentina. Boletim IG Instituto de Geosciências, USP 6:185-191

Belongs to Vacunella according to A. C. Rocha-Campos and R. G. de Carvalho 1975

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

Type specimen: GP/IT 1200. Its type locality is Arroyo Piedra Azul, Bed BM6, Sierra Pillahuinco (GP/IT coll), which is in a Sakmarian marine shale in the Bonete Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Arroyo Piedra Azul, Bed BM6, Sierra Pillahuinco (GP/IT coll)

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