Grammatodon malayensis Cox 1936 (clam)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae

Full reference: L. R. Cox. 1936. On a fossiliferous Upper Triassic shale from Pahang, Federated Malay States. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17(98):213-221

Belongs to Grammatodon according to L. R. Cox 1936

Sister taxa: Grammatodon (Grammatodon), Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon), Grammatodon (Lamellelodon), Grammatodon (Nanonavis), Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia), Grammatodon concinnus, Grammatodon inornata, Grammatodon insons, Grammatodon sulcatus, Grammatodon toyorensis, Grammatodon tripartitus

Type specimen: BMNH L.63425. Its type locality is Sungei Taba, which is in a Carnian marine shale in Malaysia.

Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Sungei Taba

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