Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Full reference: S. K. Skwarko. 1967. First Upper Triassic and ? Lower Jurassic marine Mollusca from New Guinea. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 75:39-84
Belongs to Costatoria according to S. K. Skwarko 1967
Sister taxa: Costatoria costata, Costatoria fallax, Costatoria inaequicostata, Costatoria katsurensis, Costatoria kobayashii, Costatoria nazeensis, Costatoria omanica, Costatoria subrotunda, Costatoria vestitaeformis, Myophoria (Costatoria) goldfussi, Myophoria (Costatoria) kweichowensis, Myophoria (Costatoria) mansuyi, Myophoria (Costatoria) minor, Myophoria (Costatoria) napangensis, Myophoria (Costatoria) nuitoensis, Myophoria (Costatoria) radiata, Myophoria (Costatoria) submultistriata, Myophoria (Costatoria) szechenyii
Type specimen: CPC 5096, a shell. Its type locality is M26, 5 miles north-east from Tabibuga, which is in a Carnian marine siliciclastic in the Jimi Formation of Papua New Guinea.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Papua New Guinea (9 collections)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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