Glyptoleda (Menucula) venusta Guo 1988 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Belongs to Glyptoleda (Menucula) according to Guo 1988

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Geological Museum of China, Beijing, IVy0719. Its type locality is Coal Hill, Pingyuanjie / Nianshan, which is in a Ladinian marine horizon in the Falang Formation of China.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Coal Hill, Pingyuanjie / Nianshan

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