Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Full reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1936. Some fossils from the Eurydesma and Conularia beds (Punjabian) of the Salt Range. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica, New Series 23(1):1-36
Belongs to Astartella according to F. R. C. Reed 1936
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 huangnijiangensis, Astartella illinoiensis, Astartella meridionalis, Astartella minuta, Astartella multicostata, Astartella nasuta, Astartella obliqua, Astartella omolonica, Astartella permocarbonica, 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: Its type locality is Pidh, two furlongs SSW on road to Pind Dadan Khan, which is in an Asselian marine conglomerate in the Talchir Formation of Pakistan
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Pidh, two furlongs SSW on road to Pind Dadan Khan
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