†family Ucumariidae Sanchez and Vaccari 2003 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Ucumariidae

Full reference: T. M. Sanchez and N. E. Vaccari. 2003. Ucumariidae new family (Bivalvia, Anomalodesmata), and other bivalves from the Early Ordovician (Tremadoc) of northwestern Argentina. Ameghiniana 40:415-424

Parent taxon: Pholadomyoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Sanchez and Vaccari 2003

Sister taxa: Aksumya, Arenigomyidae, Barcoona, Chaenomyidae, Margaritariidae, Pholadomyidae, Sphenolium

Subtaxa: Ucumaris Ucumaropsis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Arenig of Argentina (2 collections)

• Tremadoc of Argentina (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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