Neilonella Dall 1881 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Tindariidae

Alternative spelling: Leda (Neilonella)

Parent taxon: Neilonellidae according to P. M. Mikkelsen 2006

See also Coan et al. 2000, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer et al. 2004 and Todd 2001

Sister taxa: Austrotindaria, Clencharia

Subtaxa: Neilonella corpulenta Neilonella hadalis Neilonella kermadecensis

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Type: Leda (Neilonella) corpulenta

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Japan (4 collections)

• Miocene of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (7)

• Oligocene to Miocene of the Russian Federation (2)

• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (2)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Japan (1)

• Eocene of Japan (1)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1)

• Cretaceous of Chile (1), Denmark (2), Germany (2), Jordan (1), Libya (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)

Total: 30 collections including 36 occurrences

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