Palaeoconcha subsymmetrica Kobayashi 1934 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Praenuculidae

Alternative combination: Ctenodonta subsymmetrica

Full reference: T. Kobayashi. 1934. The Cambro-Ordovician formations and faunas of south Chosen. Paleontology. Part I. Middle Ordovician faunas. Journal of the Faculty of Science, the Imperial University of Tokyo, Section 2 3(8):335-519

Belongs to Palaeoconcha according to I. Hayami and T. Kase 1977

Sister taxa: Palaeoconcha faberi, Palaeoconcha ohioensis, Palaeoconcha samenoha

Type specimen: UMUT PM0543. Its type locality is Hyesan (=Keizan-son), which is in a Llandeilo carbonate limestone in the Tsuibon Formation of North Korea.

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Hyesan (=Keizan-son)

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