Myalina banschangensis Reed 1944 (clam)

Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae

Full reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1944. Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range. Palaeontogica Indica, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series 23(2):1-596

Belongs to Myalina according to F. R. C. Reed 1944

Sister taxa: Myalina (Myalina), Myalina (Myalinella), Myalina (Orthomyalina), Myalina (Selenimyalina), Myalina chilena, Myalina compressa, Myalina congeneris, Myalina copei, Myalina dalecarlica, Myalina degeeri, Myalina falcata, Myalina flexuosa, Myalina golfussiana, Myalina kansasensis, Myalina kiparisovae, Myalina lamellosa, Myalina leptaenarum, Myalina longicardinalis, Myalina longinqua, Myalina mongugaensis, Myalina nemesis, Myalina nessus, Myalina orsae, Myalina parallela, Myalina permiana, Myalina pernaformis, Myalina plicata, Myalina recta, Myalina semiglobosa, Myalina tommasii, Myalina vetusta

Type specimen: GSI 17208, a shell. Its type locality is Banschang, No 2 bed, K29.720-798, E of Chhidru, Salt Range, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate marl in the Wargal Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Banschang, No 2 bed, K29.720-798, E of Chhidru, Salt Range

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