Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Alternative combination: Palaearca wattii
Full reference: R. Tate. 1896. Palaeontology. Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to central Australia 3:97-116
Belongs to Cyrtodonta according to J. Pojeta and J. Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977
See also Tate 1896
Sister taxa: Cyrtodonta belli, Cyrtodonta billingsi, Cyrtodonta bodae, Cyrtodonta breviuscula, Cyrtodonta carberryi, Cyrtodonta cornwallia, Cyrtodonta dalecarlica, Cyrtodonta exigua, Cyrtodonta gibbera, Cyrtodonta gibbosa, Cyrtodonta grandis, Cyrtodonta hazeli, Cyrtodonta holmi, Cyrtodonta huronensis, Cyrtodonta kagawongensis, Cyrtodonta kallholniensis, Cyrtodonta kayseri, Cyrtodonta lamellosa, Cyrtodonta lindstromi, Cyrtodonta megumbona, Cyrtodonta mira, Cyrtodonta mobergi, Cyrtodonta oboloidea, Cyrtodonta orsae, Cyrtodonta ovalis, Cyrtodonta ponderosa, Cyrtodonta prima, Cyrtodonta quartzitica, Cyrtodonta richardi, Cyrtodonta scala, Cyrtodonta schmalenseei, Cyrtodonta solitaria, Cyrtodonta staffordae, Cyrtodonta subovata, Cyrtodonta suecica
Type specimen: SAM T 1258a, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Australia (12 collections), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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