Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Malletiidae

Synonym: Palaeoneilo qinzhouensis He et al. 2007

Full reference: Z.J. Fang. 1987. Bivalves from the upper part of the Permian in southern Hunan, China. Collection of Postgraduate Theses of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica 1987(1):349-411

Belongs to Palaeoneilo according to Fang 1987

Sister taxa: Palaeoneilo acarinata, Palaeoneilo arctica, Palaeoneilo artiensis, Palaeoneilo centralis, Palaeoneilo cuneiformis, Palaeoneilo elliptica, Palaeoneilo excentrica, Palaeoneilo fecunda, Palaeoneilo fibularis, Palaeoneilo fortistriata, Palaeoneilo galatea, Palaeoneilo guizhouensis, Palaeoneilo leiyangensis, Palaeoneilo lutosa, Palaeoneilo magna, Palaeoneilo mcchesneyana, Palaeoneilo occidentalis, Palaeoneilo ogachiensis, Palaeoneilo oviformis, Palaeoneilo parenica, Palaeoneilo postolegi, Palaeoneilo praeacuta, Palaeoneilo qujianensis, Palaeoneilo qujiangensis, Palaeoneilo sera, Palaeoneilo sinuata, Palaeoneilo smithi, Palaeoneilo subcarinata, Palaeoneilo subexcentrica, Palaeoneilo suborbicularis, Palaeoneilo subtenella, Palaeoneilo sunanensis, Palaeoneilo symmetricus, Palaeoneilo tebagaensis, Palaeoneilo thorslundi, Palaeoneilo tirolensis, Palaeoneilo yanjiensis, Palaeoneilo yongdingensis

Type specimens:

• Palaeoneilo shaoyangensis: NIGP 71582, a valve (Right valve). Its type locality is Mayuanli, Jiugongqiao, Shaoyang County, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine mudstone in the Douling Formation of China.
• Palaeoneilo qinzhouensis: GD-13-24, a valve (Right valve internal mold). Its type locality is Dongpan section, bed 13-6, Fusui County, which is in a Griesbachian basinal (siliciclastic) claystone in the Luolou Formation of China.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve length 6.33