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