Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Full reference: T. E. Yancey. 1978. Brachiopods and mollusca of the Lower Permian Arcturus Group, Nevada and Utah, Part 1: brachiopods, scaphopods, rostroconchs, and bivalves. Bulletins of American Paleontology 74(303):257-367
Belongs to Quadratonucula according to T. E. Yancey 1978
Sister taxa: Quadratonucula asymmetrica, Quadratonucula australiensis
Type specimen: USNM 245150, a valve (Left valve, internal mold). Its type locality is CHS 1J-2, Buck Mountain Section, which is in an Artinskian marine horizon in the Riepetown Formation of Nevada.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at CHS 1J-2, Buck Mountain Section
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