Taimyrodon taimyrensis Kurushin 1985 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae

Full reference: N. I. Kurushin. 1985. Description of bivalves, in Triasovye brakhiopody i dvustvorchatye mollyuski severa sredney Sibiri. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Sibirskoe Otdelenie Trudy Instituta Geologii I Geofiziki 633:39-111

Belongs to Taimyrodon according to N. I. Kurushin 1985

Sister taxon: Taimyrodon olenekensis

Type specimen: IGiG 753/283. Its type locality is Tsvetkov Cape, outcrop 1, layer 18, eastern Taimyr, which is in a Spathian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of the Russian Federation (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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