Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Full reference: F. B. Meek and A. H. Worthen. 1866. Descriptions of invertebrates from the Carboniferous System, Illinois. Geological Survey of Illinois 2:145-411
Parent taxon: Pteriidae according to R. D. Hoare 1961
Sister taxa: Actinopterinia, Arcavicula, Austropteria, Confusionella, Dattinae, Electroma, Eopinctada, Joachymia, Pachyperna, Phelopteria, Pinctada, Pseudaucella, Pterelectroma, Pteria, Pteriinae, Pterinellinae, Pteroperna, Ptychopterinia, Rhaetavicula, Rhynchopterus, Somapteria, Stefaninia, Triaxus
Subtaxa: Limopteria subalata
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Loc. 32. Waste banks of the Power Compnay mine, just east of County Hwy. K, 2¾ miles north of Germantown (Carboniferous of Missouri)
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