Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Full reference: J. H. Li and B. L. Ding. 1982. Taxonomic names: Lamellibranchiata. Palaeontological Atlas of East China 2:307-323

Belongs to Wilkingia according to J. H. Li and B. L. Ding 1982

Sister taxa: Wilkingia andrewsi, Wilkingia androsovi, Wilkingia bulkurensis, Wilkingia hainanensis, Wilkingia hubeiensis, Wilkingia inflata, Wilkingia kutorgana, Wilkingia maxvillensis, Wilkingia mediterranea, Wilkingia neglecta, Wilkingia perelegans, Wilkingia pleuromyoides, Wilkingia rothi, Wilkingia sericea, Wilkingia terminale, Wilkingia triangularis, Wilkingia verchojanica, Wilkingia walkeri, Wilkingia wyomingensis

Type specimen: Nanjing Inst Geol Min Res HI-2516, a shell (Articulated steinkern). Its type locality is Meixianling, Fengcheng County, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine horizon in the Loping Formation of China.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 18.8 x 8.8, valve length 8.20