Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Full reference: J. P. Smith. 1927. Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 141:1-262
Belongs to Anoplophora according to J. P. Smith 1927
Sister taxa: Unionites albertii, Unionites bittneri, Unionites borealis, Unionites breviformis, Unionites brevis, Unionites canalensis, Unionites donacinus, Unionites elisabethae, Unionites fassaensis, Unionites gregarius, Unionites griesbachi, Unionites guizhouensis, Unionites jacobi, Unionites kobyumensis, Unionites letticus, Unionites manmuensis, Unionites minimus, Unionites muensteri, Unionites ovalis, Unionites posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites subrectus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites baconicus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites grandis, Myacites obtusus, Myacites faba, Myacites depressus, Myacites radiatus, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora telleri, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora liasokeuperina, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora isocardioides
Type specimen: Its type locality is North Fork of Sulanharas Creek, 3 miles north of Kelly's ranch, which is in a Tuvalian carbonate limestone in the Hosselkus Formation of California
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at North Fork of Sulanharas Creek, 3 miles north of Kelly's ranch
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