Anoplophora shastensis Smith 1927 (clam)

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, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora purdoni, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora recta, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites radiatus, Myacites faba, Myacites grandis, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites baconicus, Myacites depressus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites obtusus

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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