Ctenodontella macrodiformis Khalfin 1940 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae

Full reference: L. Khalfin. 1940. Peletsipodi nizhnego Devona Altaia [Lower Devonian pelecypods of the Altai]. Trudy Nauchnoi Konferentsii po Izucheniiu i Osvoeniiu Proizveditelnykh sil Sibiri [Proceedings of the Scientific Conference on the Study and Development of the Productive Forces of Siberia] 256-289

Belongs to Ctenodontella according to L. Khalfin 1940

Sister taxon: Ctenodontella gagei

Type specimen: PIAS C91/4-1, a shell. Its type locality is Kondratevskaya Sopka, which is in a Devonian marine horizon in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Kondratevskaya Sopka

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