Myoconcha laevis Philippi 1898 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae

Full reference: E. Philippi. 1898. Die fauna des unteren Trigonodus-Dolomits vom Hühberfeld bei Schwieberdingen und des sogenannten “Cannstatter Kreidemergels”. Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 54:145-227

Belongs to Myoconcha according to E. Philippi 1898

Sister taxa: Myoconcha (Modiolina), Myoconcha acquatensis, Myoconcha actaeon, Myoconcha americana, Myoconcha amnipacis, Myoconcha appeli, Myoconcha aspasia, Myoconcha auriculata, Myoconcha borealis, Myoconcha broilii, Myoconcha brunneri, Myoconcha costulata, Myoconcha crassa, Myoconcha curvata, Myoconcha decorata, Myoconcha delawarensis, Myoconcha epigonus, Myoconcha giebeli, Myoconcha gregaria, Myoconcha huancangensis, Myoconcha joanniswanneri, Myoconcha loeschmanni, Myoconcha maximiliani, Myoconcha muelleri, Myoconcha nana, Myoconcha neuquena, Myoconcha parvula, Myoconcha pavida, Myoconcha plana, Myoconcha psilonoti, Myoconcha ptychitum, Myoconcha qingyanensis, Myoconcha rathieri, Myoconcha recta, Myoconcha retroflexa, Myoconcha roemeri, Myoconcha rugulosa, Myoconcha scabra, Myoconcha taegeri, Myoconcha timorensis, Myoconcha weiri, Myoconcha wohrmanni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hühnerfeld, Schwieberdingen, which is in an Anisian carbonate dolomite in Germany

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Hühnerfeld, Schwieberdingen

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