Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Belongs to Myacites according to Schlotheim 1820
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 depressus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites radiatus, Myacites grandis, Myacites obtusus, Myacites faba, Myacites baconicus, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora elongata, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora pappi
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Bindlach marine invertebrates (Triassic of Germany)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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