Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Alternative combination: Anodontophora griesbachi
Belongs to Unionites according to J. Yin and C. A. McRoberts 2006
See also Gu et al. 1976, Hudson and Jefferies 1961 and Sha 1995
Sister taxa: Unionites albertii, Unionites bittneri, Unionites borealis, Unionites breviformis, Unionites brevis, Unionites canalensis, Unionites donacinus, Unionites elisabethae, Unionites fassaensis, Unionites gregarius, Unionites guizhouensis, Unionites jacobi, Unionites kobyumensis, Unionites letticus, Unionites manmuensis, Unionites minimus, Unionites muensteri, Unionites ovalis, Unionites posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites subrectus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Myacites radiatus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites faba, Myacites obtusus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites grandis, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites depressus, Myacites baconicus, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora angulata, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora recta
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (1 collection), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (5), Indonesia (6), Iran (7), the Russian Federation (1), the United Arab Emirates (2)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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