Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Malletiidae

Full reference: V. A. Muromtseva. 1981. Bivalvia. Permskie Otlozheniya Novoi Zemli 26-51

Belongs to Palaeoneilo according to V. A. Muromtseva and V. A. Guskov 1984

Sister taxa: Palaeoneilo acarinata, 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 shaoyangensis, 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 specimen: 41/11570. Its type locality is Mezhdusharsky Island, Section 9, Sample 1197, Novaya Zemlya, which is in a Roadian marine siliciclastic in the Shadrovskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve length 10.6