Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Full reference: T. P. Poulton. 1979. Jurassic Trigoniid Bivalves from Canada and Western United States of America. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 282
Belongs to Vaugonia according to T. P. Poulton 1979
Sister taxa: Vaugonia (Hijitrigonia), Vaugonia (Vaugonia), Vaugonia angulata, Vaugonia clythia, Vaugonia detrita, Vaugonia doroschini, Vaugonia flecta, Vaugonia flexicostata, Vaugonia goodalli, Vaugonia gottschei, Vaugonia hauchcornei, Vaugonia hectorleanzai, Vaugonia imlayi, Vaugonia kobayashii, Vaugonia obliqua, Vaugonia substriata, Vaugonia tripartita, Vaugonia utahensis, Vaugonia vancouverensis, Vaugonia vcostata, Vaugonia veronica, Vaugonia yukonensis
Type specimen: USNM 219913, 219911-219915, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic loc. 27359, which is in a Pliensbachian marine limestone/sandstone in the Suplee Formation of Oregon.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Canada (1: British Columbia collection), United States (4: Oregon)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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