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 purdoni, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora telleri, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora recta, Myacites baconicus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites depressus, Myacites faba, Myacites grandis, Myacites radiatus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites (Pleuromya)
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Laineck marine invertebrates (Triassic of Germany)
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