Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Full reference: N. D. Newell and D.W. Boyd. 1999. A new Lower Triassic Permophorus from the central Rocky Mountains. American Museum Novitates 3263:1-565
Belongs to Permophorus according to M. Hautmann et al. 2013
See also Newell and Boyd 1999
Sister taxa: Permophorus albequus, Permophorus angustus, Permophorus arcus, Permophorus bregeri, Permophorus complanatus, Permophorus costatus, Permophorus gregarius, Permophorus guangxingensis, Permophorus lianyuanensis, Permophorus mexicanus, Permophorus oblongus, Permophorus obovatus, Permophorus octocostatus, Permophorus pricei, Permophorus proprius, Permophorus rotundus, Permophorus shuangfengensis, Permophorus similis, Permophorus subcostatus, Permophorus subovalis, Permophorus tenuistriatus, Permophorus tropidophorus, Permophorus vendiavkiriensis, Pleurophorus tricarinatus, Pleurophorus meeki, Pleurophorus timoricus, Pleurophorus imbricatus, Pleurophorus delawarensis, Pleurophorus lunulus, Pleurophorus overbecki, Pleurophorus occidentalis, Pleurophorus elongatus, Pleurophorus quinquecostatus
Type specimen: AMNH 44088, a valve (Right valve). Its type locality is AMNH B7850, Commissary Ridge, which is in a Spathian marine limestone in the Thaynes Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (15: Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming collections)
Total: 15 collections including 16 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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