Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Full reference: A. Bittner. 1895. Revision der Lamellibranchiaten von St. Cassian. Abhandlungen der kaiserlich-koniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 18(1):1-236
Parent taxon: Malletiidae according to S. Ros-Franch et al. 2014
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Anthraconeilo, Arisaigia, Australoneilo, Bicrenula, Cadomia, Caesariella, Carinineilo, Concavoleda, Ctenodontella, Dianucula, Dysodonta, Ekstadia, Johnmartinia, Katadesmia, Koenenia, Lapteviella, Lophoconcha, Malletia, Metapalaeoneilo, Myoplusia, Neilo, Ningliconcha, Palaeoneilo, Palaeostraba, Perrisonota, Prosoleptus, Quadratonucula, Sluha, Spathelopsis, Suria, Taimyrodon, Tindariopsis, Tropinuculites, Vnigriella, Yoldioides, Yongshengia
Subtaxa: Phaenodesmia areolata Phaenodesmia klipsteiniana Phaenodesmia laubeana Phaenodesmia peruana Phaenodesmia similis
Type: Phaenodesmia klipsteiniana
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Germany (6 collections)
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (6), Italy (3), Peru (3), Slovakia (1)
Total: 20 collections including 23 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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