Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Full reference: F. B. Meek. 1864. Section III. Description of the Jurassic Fossils. Palaeontology of California. Vol. I. 37-54
Belongs to Myacites according to W. M. Gabb 1870
See also Meek 1864
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 conjugens, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora angulata, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora liasokeuperina, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora isocardioides, Myacites baconicus, Myacites obtusus, Myacites faba, Myacites radiatus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites grandis, Myacites musculoides, Myacites inconspicuus
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Volcano (Pilot Mountains) (Triassic of Nevada)
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