Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cardiolidae

Alternative combination: Cardiola iniquistriata

Full reference: L. Beushausen. 1895. Die Lamellibranchiaten des rheinischen Devon mit Ausschluss der Aviculiden. Abhandlungen der Königlich Preussichen geologischen Landesanstalt. 17:1-410

Belongs to Ontaria according to J. Nagel-Myers 2022

See also Beushausen 1895

Sister taxa: Ontaria concentrica, Ontaria suborbicularis

Type specimen: MB.M.257. Its type locality is Oberscheld, which is in a Frasnian carbonate limestone/ironstone in the Adorf Bänderschiefer Formation of Germany.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Oberscheld

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