Bivalvia - Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
Full reference: F. H. McLearn. 1941. Preliminary descriptions of some new Triassic pelecypods from the Peace River foothills, B. C. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 55(3):31-33
Belongs to Palaeocardita according to F. H. McLearn 1941
Sister taxa: Palaeocardita austriaca, Palaeocardita buruca, Palaeocardita carinata, Palaeocardita iranica, Palaeocardita peruviana, Palaeocardita quadrata, Palaeocardita silberlingi, Palaeocardita singularis, Palaeocardita stoecklini, Palaeocardita trapezoidalis
Type specimen: Geological Survey Ottawa, No. 8798. Its type locality is Barren Gully, Pardonet Hill, which is in a Tuvalian perireef or subreef packstone/grainstone in the Baldonnel Formation of Canada.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Barren Gully, Pardonet Hill
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