Bivalvia - Cardiida - Gaimardiidae

Parent taxon: Gaimardiidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Sepkoski 2002 and Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992

Sister taxa: Costokidderia, Eugaimardia, Neogaimardia

Subtaxa: Gaimardia (Neogaimardia) Gaimardia flemingi

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at La Meseta Fm Telm 3 (Eocene of Antarctica)

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