Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Synonyms: Bathymalletia Kuroda and Habe 1971, Malletiella Soot-Ryen 1957, Minormalletia Dall 1908, Mulidentata Kristofovich 1964, Pseudomalletia Fischer 1886, Solenella Sowerby 1833
Parent taxon: Malletiinae according to D. Frassinetti and V Covacevich 1995
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Maxwell 1992, Mikkelsen 2006, Moore 1983, Nielson and Valdovinos 2008, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer et al. 2004, Todd 2001 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Anthraconeilo, Arisaigia, Australoneilo, Bicrenula, Cadomia, Caesariella, Carinineilo, Concavoleda, Ctenodontella, Dianucula, Dysodonta, Ekstadia, Johnmartinia, Katadesmia, Koenenia, Lapteviella, Lophoconcha, Metapalaeoneilo, Myoplusia, Neilo, Ningliconcha, Palaeoneilo, Palaeostraba, Perrisonota, Phaenodesmia, Prosoleptus, Quadratonucula, Sluha, Spathelopsis, Suria, Taimyrodon, Tindariopsis, Tropinuculites, Vnigriella, Yoldioides, Yongshengia
Subtaxa: Malletia abrupta Malletia chilensis Malletia galatheae Malletia leanzai Malletia sabrina Malletia tsubetsuensis Minormalletia nasuta Minormalletia simia Perissonota littlei Perissonota protexta Pseudomalletia obtusa Solenella subaequalis Solenella transversa
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Chile (1)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Japan (7)
• Miocene of Japan (6), New Zealand (3), the Russian Federation (5)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Antarctica (4), the Russian Federation (2)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (7), United States (2: Oregon)
• Eocene of Japan (4), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (5), United States (3: California, Oregon)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Chile (1), China (1), Germany (1), Japan (1), Nigeria (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (103: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Hungary (1)
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (4)
• Permian of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 179 collections including 218 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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