Bivalvia - Actinodontida - Oriocrassatellidae
Full reference: D. W. Boyd and N.D. Newell. 1968. Hinge grades in the evolution of crassatellacean bivalves as revealed by Permian genera. American Museum Novitates 2328:1-52
Belongs to Oriocrassatella according to V. A. Muromtseva and V. A. Guskov 1984
See also Boyd and Newell 1968
Sister taxa: Oriocrassatella brenensis, Oriocrassatella compressa, Oriocrassatella intermedia, Oriocrassatella lapidaria, Oriocrassatella piauiensis, Oriocrassatella plana, Oriocrassatella rutogensis, Oriocrassatella stokesi, Oriocrassatella victori
Type specimen: AMNH 28473, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is AMNH2010, Beaver Creek, which is in a Kungurian open shallow subtidal packstone in the Park City Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of the Russian Federation (1 collection), United States (1: Wyoming)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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