Austrotindaria Fleming 1948 (clam)

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

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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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