Bivalvia - Arcida - Glyptarcidae
Full reference: H. Hicks. 1873. On the Tremadoc rocks in the neighbourhood of St. David's, South Wales and their fossil contents. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 29(1):39-52
Belongs to Glyptarca according to R. M. Carter 1971
See also Cope 1996 and Hicks 1873
Sister taxa: Glyptarca dalecarlica, Glyptarca serrata, Glyptarca sinensis, Glyptarca symmetrica
Type specimen: Sedgwick Museum A16706-7. Its type locality is East Side of Ogof Hên, Ramsey Island, which is in a Moridunian coastal mudstone in the Ogof Hen Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Whitlandian of the United Kingdom (3 collections)
• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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