Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Tindariidae
Synonym: Pseudotindaria Sanders and Allen 1977
Parent taxon: Neilonellidae according to E. V. Coan et al. 2000
See also Maxwell 1988, Maxwell 1992, Mikkelsen 2006, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Clencharia, Neilonella
Subtaxa: Austrotindaria antiqua Austrotindaria benthicola Austrotindaria gibbsii Austrotindaria svalbardensis Austrotindaria wrighti Pseudotindaria delli Pseudotindaria erebus Pseudotindaria flemingi
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (2 collections)
• Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Triassic of China (26), Greenland (1), Hungary (39), Italy (89), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (23: Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming)
• Permian to Triassic of China (4)
Total: 190 collections including 197 occurrences
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