Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Full reference: K. Nakazawa and N.D. Newell. 1968. Permian bivalves of Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Geology and Mineralogy 35(1):1-108
Parent taxon: Bakevelliidae according to T. R. Waller and G. D. Stanley 2005
See also Fang 1987, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Aguilerella, Aguileria, Bakevellia, Cassiavellia, Costigervillia, Cultriopsis, Cuneigervillia, Ensipteria, Euptera, Gervillancea, Gervillaria, Gervillella, Gervillia, Gervilliopsis, Hoernesia, Kedonella, Kobayashites, Langsonella, Marmaronia, Nanlingella, Panis, Permoperna, Pseudoptera, Songdaella, Tambanella, Virgellia
Subtaxa: Towapteria equicosta Towapteria guangxingensis Towapteria guizhouensis Towapteria minima Towapteria nipponica Towapteria peracuta Towapteria radiocostata Towapteria scythica
Type: Towapteria nipponica
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (57 collections), Italy (6), Vietnam (1)
• Permian of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), China (24), Italy (19), Japan (5)
Total: 114 collections including 123 occurrences
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