Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Full reference: Z.J. Fang. 1987. Bivalves from the upper part of the Permian in southern Hunan, China. Collection of Postgraduate Theses of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica 1987(1):349-411
Belongs to Astartella according to Z.J. Fang 1987
Sister taxa: Astartella adenticulata, Astartella ambiensis, Astartella aueri, Astartella cavernata, Astartella clinata, Astartella compacta, Astartella concentrica, Astartella consimilis, Astartella doulingensis, Astartella gemmifera, Astartella guangxingensis, Astartella gurleyi, Astartella illinoiensis, Astartella meridionalis, Astartella minuta, Astartella multicostata, Astartella nasuta, Astartella obliqua, Astartella omolonica, Astartella permocarbonica, Astartella pindensis, Astartella progenetrix, Astartella pusilla, Astartella quadrata, Astartella qubuensis, Astartella raricostata, Astartella simulans, Astartella stefaniae, Astartella subquadrata, Astartella symmetrica, Astartella toyomensis, Astartella tunstallensis, Astartella vallisneriana, Astartella varica, Astartella vera
Type specimen: NIGP 71807, a valve (Left valve). Its type locality is Huangnijiang, Douling Formation, Middle Member, Leiyang County, which is in a Capitanian marine mudstone in the Douling Formation of China.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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