Ctenodontella gagei Bradshaw 1999 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae

Full reference: M. A. Bradshaw. 1999. Lower Devonian bivalves from the Reefton Group, New Zealand. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 20:1-171

Belongs to Ctenodontella according to M. A. Bradshaw 1999

Sister taxon: Ctenodontella macrodiformis

Type specimen: CM-M16825A/J, a shell. Its type locality is Adam Mudstone, Inangahua & Waitahu Outliers, Reefton area, New Zealand, which is in an Emsian marine mudstone/siltstone in the Adam Mudstone Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Adam Mudstone, Inangahua & Waitahu Outliers, Reefton area, New Zealand

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