Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Full reference: K.S.W. Campbell. 1962. Marine fossils from the Carboniferous glacial rocks of New South Wales. Journal of Paleontology 36(1):38-52
Belongs to Sanguinolites according to W. G. H. Maxwell 1964
See also Campbell 1962
Sister taxa: Sanguinolites bellerophontium, Sanguinolites bisectus, Sanguinolites carbonaria, Sanguinolites combensis, Sanguinolites drupa, Sanguinolites gracilis, Sanguinolites gracilis, Sanguinolites hekitoensis, Sanguinolites ishii, Sanguinolites kamiyassensis, Sanguinolites lukjanovae, Sanguinolites modiomorphoides, Sanguinolites naenia, Sanguinolites naiadiformis, Sanguinolites obliquus, Sanguinolites olseni, Sanguinolites peruvianus, Sanguinolites porteri, Sanguinolites qiaojiaensis, Sanguinolites retusus, Sanguinolites rigidus, Sanguinolites salteri, Sanguinolites sanduskyensis, Sanguinolites shumardi, Sanguinolites simplex, Sanguinolites simulans, Sanguinolites sphenoidalis, Sanguinolites unioniformis, Sanguinolites ventricosus, Sanguinolites xizangensis
Type specimen: F 5712 U.N.E.. Its type locality is Oaky Creek section, near Sherwood, 11 miles WNW of Kempsey, which is in a Westphalian marine siltstone/mudstone in the Booral Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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