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Vanuxemia bulla

Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae

Taxonomy
Palaearca bulla was named by Salter (1865) [Palaearca? bulla]. Its type specimen is BGS GSM 12397, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Allt-Tair-ffynon Beds at Allt y Gadair, which is in a Longvillian marine mudstone in the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Vanuxemia bulla by Tunnicliff (1987).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
V. baffinensis, V. crassa, V. dixonensis, V. nana, V. sardesoni, V. terminalis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Palaearca bulla Salter p. 344 figs. woodcut 13 f. 3
1987Vanuxemia bulla Tunnicliff pp. 680 - 681 figs. pl. 76 f. 11-15; pl. 77 f. 11; txt. f. 2a-c

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
—Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
RankNameAuthor
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
—OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
—ArcioniGray 1854
orderCyrtodontidaScarlato and Starobogatov 1971
—CyrtodontidinaScarlato and Starobogatov 1971
superfamilyCyrtodontoidea(Ulrich 1894)
familyCyrtodontidae
genusVanuxemia
speciesbulla()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Vanuxemia bulla Salter 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
valve height227.325.629.127.42.49
valve diagonal227.325.629.127.42.49

Composition: aragonitec
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100g
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Thickness: thing
Folds: noneg
Ribbing: noneg
Spines: noneg
Internal reinforcement: noneg
Locomotion: facultatively mobilef
Life habit: semi-infaunalf
Diet: suspension feederf
Vision: blindc
Created: 2009-06-05 11:40:55
Modified: 2009-06-05 13:40:55
Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009

Age range: Longvillian or 457.20000 to 455.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Longvillian457.2 - 455.0United Kingdom (Wales) Palaearca bulla (type locality: 13832) Vanuxemia bulla (13834)