Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Full reference: F. Frech. 1912. Die Leitfossilien der Werfener Schichten und Nachträge zur Fauna des Muschelkalkes der Cassianer und Raibler Schichten sowie des Rhaet und des Dachsteindolomites (Hauptdolomit) [The main fossils of the Werfen Formation]. Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(6):1-95
Belongs to Anoplophora according to F. Frech 1912
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 shastensis, Anoplophora recta, Myacites baconicus, Myacites obtusus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites depressus, Myacites faba, Myacites grandis, Myacites radiatus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites (Pleuromya)
Type specimen: Its type locality is Koloska Valley, which is in a Carnian marine horizon in Hungary
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Koloska Valley
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