Sinbadiella pygmaea Hautmann and Nützel 2005 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: M. Hautmann and A. Nützel. 2005. First record of a heterodont bivalve (Mollusca) from the Early Triassic: palaeoecological significance and implications for the ‘Lazarus Problem’. Palaeontology 48(6):1131-1138

Belongs to Sinbadiella according to R. Hofmann and M. Hautmann 2013

See also Hautmann and Nützel 2005

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BSPG2004XII-10. Its type locality is Windowblind Butte, Bed VIII, San Rafael Swell, which is in a Smithian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal packstone in the Moenkopi Formation of Utah.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Triassic of United States (4: Utah collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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