Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: X. Lan. 1983. Qiongzhounia names, in Veteranellinae, a new subfamily of Nuculanidae (Bivalvia), with the classificatory significance of ornamentations in Palaeotaxodonta. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 22:622-623

Parent taxon: Veteranellinae according to W. S. Ayoub-Hannaa et al. 2017

See also Fang et al. 2009, Lan 1983 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Costinuculana, Eleganuculana, Girtyana, Hilgardia, Indoculana, Veteranella, Xiaoshuiculana, Zealeda

Subtaxa: Qiongzhounia yongguinia

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Type: Qiongzhounia yongguinia

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Hainan Dao (Pliocene of China)

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