Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Full reference: H. Hicks. 1873. On the Tremadoc rocks in the neighbourhood of St. David's, South Wales and their fossil contents. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 29(1):39-52
Parent taxon: Parallelodontinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter 1971, Fang 2006 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Carbonarca, Curvirostrum, Parallelodon
Subtaxa: Glyptarca dalecarlica Glyptarca primaeva
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Dobrotivian of France (1 collection), Portugal (8), Spain (3)
• Ordovician of China (3), Ireland (1), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 26 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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