Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Malletiidae
Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1912. On some new genera and species of Pennsylvanian fossils from the Wewoka Formation of Oklahoma. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 21(2):119-156
Parent taxon: Malletiinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Arisaigia, Australoneilo, Bicrenula, Cadomia, Caesariella, Carinineilo, Concavoleda, Ctenodontella, Dianucula, Dysodonta, Ekstadia, Johnmartinia, Katadesmia, Koenenia, Lapteviella, Lophoconcha, Malletia, Metapalaeoneilo, Myoflebilia, Myoplusia, Neilo, Ningliconcha, Palaeoneilo, Palaeostraba, Perrisonota, Phaenodesmia, Prosoleptus, Quadratonucula, Sinovenustas, Sluha, Spathelopsis, Suria, Taimyrodon, Tindariopsis, Tropinuculites, Vnigriella, Yoldioides, Yongshengia
Subtaxa: Anthraconeilo taffiana
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (2 collections), United States (3: Alaska, Kansas, Nevada)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (2), Germany (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (24: Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma)
Total: 40 collections including 46 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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