Portlandia (Yoldiella) nielseni Schnetler 2001 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae

Full reference: K. I. Schnetler. 2001. The Selandian (Paleocene) mollusc fauna from Copenhagen, Denmark: the Poul Harder 1920 collection. Geology of Denmark Survey Bulletin 37:1-85

Belongs to Portlandia (Yoldiella) according to K. I. Schnetler 2001

Sister taxa: Yoldiella haasti, Yoldiella intermedia, Yoldiella lenticula, Yoldiella leurovata, Yoldiella lucida, Yoldiella malletioides, Yoldiella nana, Yoldiella oblata, Yoldiella orcia, Yoldiella spitsbergensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Sundkrogen 4, Selandian, Denmark, which is in a Selandian marginal marine claystone in the Lellinge Greensand Formation of Denmark

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Sundkrogen 4, Selandian, Denmark

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