Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Alternative spelling: Yoldia (Palaeoneilo)
Synonym: Praesacella
Full reference: J. Hall and R. P. Whitfield. 1869. Preliminary notice of the lamellibranchiate shells of the upper Helderberg, Hamilton and Chemung groups, with others from the Waverly sandstones, part 2. 1-80
Parent taxon: Malletiinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Amler 1992, Bouchet et al. 2010, Fang 2006, Harrison and Harrison 1975, Hayami and Kase 1977, Isberg 1934, Meek 1871, Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anthraconeilo, Arisaigia, Australoneilo, Bicrenula, Cadomia, Caesariella, Carinineilo, Concavoleda, Ctenodontella, Dianucula, Dysodonta, Ekstadia, Johnmartinia, Katadesmia, Koenenia, Lapteviella, Lophoconcha, Malletia, Metapalaeoneilo, Myoplusia, Neilo, Ningliconcha, Palaeostraba, Perrisonota, Phaenodesmia, Prosoleptus, Quadratonucula, Sluha, Spathelopsis, Suria, Taimyrodon, Tindariopsis, Tropinuculites, Vnigriella, Yoldioides, Yongshengia
Subtaxa: Palaeoneilo acarinata Palaeoneilo aguilerae Palaeoneilo arctica Palaeoneilo artiensis Palaeoneilo bosei Palaeoneilo bownockeri Palaeoneilo broilii Palaeoneilo burkarti Palaeoneilo centralis Palaeoneilo circularis Palaeoneilo constricta Palaeoneilo cordiformis Palaeoneilo cordobae Palaeoneilo costata Palaeoneilo cuneiformis Palaeoneilo damesi Palaeoneilo elliptica Palaeoneilo emarginata Palaeoneilo excentrica Palaeoneilo fecunda Palaeoneilo fibularis Palaeoneilo filosa Palaeoneilo fortistriata Palaeoneilo frechi Palaeoneilo galatea Palaeoneilo guangdongensis Palaeoneilo guizhouensis Palaeoneilo hamiltoni Palaeoneilo hopensacki Palaeoneilo humboldti Palaeoneilo inflata Palaeoneilo jinjiensis Palaeoneilo ledaeformis Palaeoneilo leiyangensis Palaeoneilo lirata Palaeoneilo longa Palaeoneilo lutosa Palaeoneilo magna Palaeoneilo mcchesneyana Palaeoneilo mexicana Palaeoneilo mundeni Palaeoneilo nifukokoensis Palaeoneilo occidentalis Palaeoneilo ogachiensis Palaeoneilo ordonezi Palaeoneilo otamitensis Palaeoneilo oviformis Palaeoneilo oweni Palaeoneilo parenica Palaeoneilo peneckei Palaeoneilo plicata Palaeoneilo postolegi Palaeoneilo praeacuta Palaeoneilo qinglongensis Palaeoneilo quadrata Palaeoneilo qujianensis Palaeoneilo qujiangensis Palaeoneilo rectangularis Palaeoneilo sera Palaeoneilo shaoyangensis Palaeoneilo sinuata Palaeoneilo smithi Palaeoneilo subcarinata Palaeoneilo subcarinata Palaeoneilo subexcentrica Palaeoneilo suborbicularis Palaeoneilo subtenella Palaeoneilo sunanensis Palaeoneilo symmetricus Palaeoneilo tebagaensis Palaeoneilo tenella Palaeoneilo tensa Palaeoneilo thorslundi Palaeoneilo tirolensis Palaeoneilo tobieseni Palaeoneilo triangularis Palaeoneilo villadae Palaeoneilo waitzi Palaeoneilo yanjiensis Palaeoneilo yongdingensis Palaeoneilo zacatecana
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (1 collection)
• Heterian of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (7), Canada (4: British Columbia, Yukon), China (6), Denmark (14), France (1), Germany (40), India (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (3), New Zealand (2), Portugal (30), Somalia (1), Spain (7), the United Kingdom (27)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Chile (1)
• Triassic of Argentina (1), Austria (6), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), China (16), Hungary (4), Indonesia (6), Italy (18), Japan (10), Kazakhstan (3), Mexico (2), New Zealand (7), Pakistan (7), the Russian Federation (12), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), United States (3: Nevada), Vietnam (1)
• Permian to Triassic of India (1)
• Permian of Argentina (1), China (44), Greece (1), India (1), Japan (4), Madagascar (2), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (14), Tunisia (17), United States (18: Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (2)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (4), Australia (3), China (3), the Czech Republic (3), Mexico (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (8), United States (40: Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (4), Bolivia (1), Brazil (15), Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Quebec), China (8), France (5), Germany (9), Luxembourg (3), Morocco (3), South Africa (10), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (475: Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvannia, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Poland (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (3), Australia (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Paraguay (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Ohio)
• Dobrotivian of France (2), Portugal (1), Spain (1)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (8), China (1), the Czech Republic (5), Morocco (2), Norway (1), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (30: Illinois, Iowa, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Virginia)
• Tremadoc of China (1)
Total: 1045 collections including 1281 occurrences
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