Myacites obtusus Goldfuss 1863 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae

Full reference: G. A. Goldfuss. 1863. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Petrefacten Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Länder. Divisio Quarta: Molluscorum acephalicorum reliquiae. Muschelthiere der Vorwelt. 1. Bivalvia. Petrefacta Germaniae 4(1):1-273

Belongs to Myacites according to G. A. Goldfuss 1863

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Laineck marine invertebrates (Triassic of Germany)

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