Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Full reference: L. Khalfin. 1940. Peletsipodi nizhnego Devona Altaia [Lower Devonian pelecypods of the Altai]. Trudy Nauchnoi Konferentsii po Izucheniiu i Osvoeniiu Proizveditelnykh sil Sibiri [Proceedings of the Scientific Conference on the Study and Development of the Productive Forces of Siberia] 256-289
Parent taxon: Malletiidae according to L. Khalfin 1940
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Anthraconeilo, Arisaigia, Australoneilo, Bicrenula, Cadomia, Caesariella, Carinineilo, Concavoleda, Dianucula, Dysodonta, Ekstadia, Johnmartinia, Katadesmia, Koenenia, Lapteviella, Lophoconcha, Malletia, Metapalaeoneilo, Myoflebilia, Myoplusia, Neilo, Ningliconcha, Palaeoneilo, Palaeostraba, Perrisonota, Phaenodesmia, Prosoleptus, Quadratonucula, Sinovenustas, Sluha, Spathelopsis, Suria, Taimyrodon, Tindariopsis, Tropinuculites, Vnigriella, Yoldioides, Yongshengia
Subtaxa: Ctenodontella gagei Ctenodontella macrodiformis
Type: Ctenodontella macrodiformis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of New Zealand (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)
• Silurian of Australia (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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