Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Synonym: Malletia pseudopraecursor Kurushin 1985
Belongs to Palaeoneilo according to R. Paredes et al. 2013
See also Dagis et al. 1996, Kurushin 1985 and Ros-Franch et al. 2014
Sister taxa: 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 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:
• Jurassic of Germany (3 collections), Mexico (1), Portugal (23), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Argentina (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), China (6), Italy (14), Japan (4), the Russian Federation (4)
Total: 59 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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