Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Full reference: J. Pojeta and J. Gilbert-Tomlinson. 1977. Australian Ordovician pelecypod molluscs. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin 174:1-64
Belongs to Cyrtodontula according to J. Pojeta and J. Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977
Sister taxa: Cyrtodontula complanata, Cyrtodontula compressa, Cyrtodontula delacarlica, Cyrtodontula dubia, Cyrtodontula hadzeli, Cyrtodontula obliquata, Cyrtodontula subtruncata, Cyrtodontula truncata, Cyrtodontula ventricosa, Whitella goniumbonata, Whitella radiata, Whitella hindi, Whitella torontoensis, Whitella sterlingensis, Whitella lata, Whitella plebia, Whitella securiformis, Whitella sigmoidea, Whitella acutiumbonis, Whitella parksi, Whitella impressata, Whitella huguesensis
Type specimen: UT 81815, a shell. Its type locality is Locality 75. Shale at Zeehan Smelters Quarry, Zeehan, which is in an Eastonian transition zone/lower shoreface shale in the Gordon Limestone Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Locality 75. Shale at Zeehan Smelters Quarry, Zeehan
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