Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Alternative combinations: Australomya waterhousei, Myonia waterhousei
Full reference: W. S. Dun. 1932. The lower marine forms of Myonia with notes on the proposed new genus Pachymyonia. Records of the Australian Museum 18:411-414
Belongs to Vacunella according to J. B. Waterhouse 1983
See also Dun 1932, Runnegar 1967 and Runnegar 1969
Sister taxa: Vacunella camachoi, Vacunella curvata, Vacunella dawsonensis, Vacunella elongata, Vacunella lunulata, Vacunella novosemelica, Vacunella oblonga, Vacunella praecurvata, Vacunella rostrata
Type specimen: AMF 6589, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections including 4 occurrences
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