Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Alternative combination: Crassatella aphrodina
Full reference: J. E. Tenison Woods. 1876. On some Tertiary fossils from Table Cape. Proceedingsof the Royal Society of Tasmania 13-26
Belongs to Eucrassatella according to T. A. Darragh 1970
See also Tate 1886 and Tenison Woods 1876
Sister taxa: Eucrassatella (Eucrassatella), Eucrassatella (Hybolophus), Eucrassatella ampla, Eucrassatella decipiens, Eucrassatella eupontica, Eucrassatella kingicoloides, Eucrassatella marshalli, Eucrassatella maudensis, Eucrassatella montserratensis, Eucrassatella oblonga, Eucrassatella pulchra, Eucrassatella rostrata, Eucrassatella scopalveus, Eucrassatella wilckensi
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (1 collection)
• Eocene of Australia (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.