Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Tindariidae
Full reference: W. J. Foster, S. Danise, and R. J. Twitchett. 2017. A silicified Early Triassic marine assemblage from Svalbard. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15:851-877
Belongs to Austrotindaria according to W. J. Foster et al. 2019
See also Foster et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Austrotindaria benthicola, Austrotindaria gibbsii, Austrotindaria svalbardensis, Austrotindaria wrighti, Pseudotindaria flemingi, Pseudotindaria erebus, Pseudotindaria delli
Type specimen: NHMUK PI MB 1240 (right valve). Its type locality is LD-04, Lusitaniadalen, which is in a Griesbachian marine siltstone in the Vikinghøgda Formation of Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (15 collections), Hungary (39), Italy (66), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (3: Wyoming)
• Permian to Triassic of China (4)
Total: 132 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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