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Palaeoneilo symmetricus

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae

Taxonomy

Palaeoneilo symmetricus was named by Fang (1987). Its type specimen is NIGP 71567, a valve (Left valve), and it is a mold. Its type locality is Mayuanli, Jiugongqiao, Shaoyang County, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine mudstone in the Douling Formation of China.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

P. antiqua, P. beushauseni, P. concentrica, P. elongata, P. farbesi, P. indicus, P. laevirostris, P. laevirostrum, P. magnifica, P. maureri, P. muta, P. nanimensis, P. orbignyi, P. patagonidica, P. penekei, P. plana, P. praecuta, P. primaeva, P. sharmani, P. sinuosus, P. truncata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1987	Palaeoneilo symmetricus Fang p. 365 figs. Pl 1, figs 11-13

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Protobranchia	(Pelseneer 1889)
superorder	Nuculaniformii	Carter et al. 2000
order	Nuculanida	(Carter et al. 2000)
superfamily	Nuculanoidea	Adams and Adams 1858
family	Malletiidae	(Adams and Adams 1858)
genus	Palaeoneilo
species	symmetricus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Palaeoneilo symmetricus Fang 1987

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available