Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Alternative combination: Cardinia recta
Full reference: J. D. Dana. 1847. Descriptions of fossil shells of the collections of the exploring expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes, USN, obtained in Australia, from the lower layers of the coal formation in Illawarra, and from a deposit probably of nearly the same age at Harper's Hill, Valley of the Hunter. American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series 4:151-160
Belongs to Stutchburia according to J. B. Waterhouse 1988
See also Dana 1847, Dana 1849 and Etheridge 1919
Sister taxa: Pleurophorus pinnaformis, Stutchburia brasiliensis, Stutchburia compressa, Stutchburia costata, Stutchburia cuneata, Stutchburia dianensis, Stutchburia etheridgei, Stutchburia farleyensis, Stutchburia guangdongensis, Stutchburia hoskingae, Stutchburia hunanensis, Stutchburia jiangxiensis, Stutchburia modioliformis, Stutchburia muderongensis, Stutchburia obliqua, Stutchburia oblonga, Stutchburia pallasi, Stutchburia sangallii, Stutchburia simplex, Stutchburia sonorensis, Stutchburia tschernyschewi, Stutchburia variabilis, Stutchburia veneris, Netschajewia elongata, Netschajewia svilajiensis, Netschajewia fenghaiensis, Netschajewia anshunensis, Netschajewia jiangsuensis
Type specimen: USNM 3648. Its type locality is Harper's Hill, Hunter Valley (USNM coll), which is in a Sakmarian marine limestone in the Allandale Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Harper's Hill, Hunter Valley (USNM coll)
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