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Malletiidae

Malletiidae

Overview

Malletiidae Adams and Adams, 1858

Common Name: 

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Elongated shells which are mostly smooth, but can have ridges.

        SIZE:

Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile (burrow)

        FEEDING MODE: Deposit Feeder

        HABITAT: Infaunal

Sources:

Cox, L. R. et al. 1969. Bivalvia, in R. C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N, Mollusca 6, Volume 2. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 1224 pp.


Genera of Malletiidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway