Myofossa (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Parent taxon: Sanguinolitinae according to C. Franke 2016

See also Morris et al. 1991 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Gilbertsonia, Grammysiopsis, Pentagrammysia, Praeundulomya, Sanguinolites, Siphogrammysia

Subtaxa: Myofossa (Myofossa) Myofossa (Ragozinia) Myofossa constricta Myofossa solita Myofossa subarbitrata

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Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (9 collections), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (17)

• Namurian of Argentina (1)

• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)

• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Australia (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Devonian of Luxembourg (1)

Total: 35 collections including 36 occurrences

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