Metrocardia Kříž 2004 (clam)

Bivalvia - Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae

Full reference: J. Kříž. 2004. Latest Frasnian and earliest Famennian (Late Devonian) bivalves from the Montagne Noire (France). Senckenbergiana Lethaea 84:85-123

Parent taxon: Lunulacardiidae according to E. Jagt-Yazykova et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Buckhornia, Conocardiopsis, Guangxiconcha, Honeoyea, Lunulacardiinae, Lunulacardium, Patrocardia, Pinnopsis, Prosochasma, Pterochaenia, Pterochaeniinae, Opisthonia

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Kostomłoty II quarry (Małe Górki), Kostomłoty, Holy Cross Mountains (Devonian of Poland)

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