Pyramus nelliae Biakov 2005 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae

Full reference: A. S. Biakov. 2005. New species of astartids and pholadomyids (Bivalvia) and beds with fauna from the Lower Permian of the Omolon Massif, northeastern Asia. Paleontological Journal 39(2):133-140

Belongs to Pyramus according to A. S. Biakov 2019

See also Biakov 2005

Sister taxa: Pyramus aenigmaeformis, Pyramus concentricus, Pyramus igori, Pyramus laevis, Pyramus myiformis, Pyramus myriformis, Pyramus permianus, Pyramus planus, Pyramus primigenius, Pyramus silicius, Pyramus simmetricus

Type specimen: SVKNII 6/02-04.80, a valve (Left valve). Its type locality is Outcrop 8, Fol'k Creek, Munugudzhak River, Omolon Basin, which is in a Sakmarian coastal sandstone in the Munugudzhak Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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