Unionites fassaensis Wissmann 1841 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae

Alternative combinations: Anodontophora (Myacites) fassaensis, Anodontophora fassaensis, Anoplophora fassaensis, Myacites fassaensis

Full reference: H. L. Wissmann. 1841. Taxonomic names, in Beiträge zur Geognosie und Petrefacten-Kunde des südöstlichen Tirols vorzüglich der Schichten von St. Cassian. Beiträge zur Petrefacten-Kunde 4:1-152

Belongs to Unionites according to R. Hofmann et al. 2015

See also Bittner 1899, Chen 1982, Chen et al. 1974, Ciriacks 1963, Dagis et al. 1996, Gu et al. 1976, Hautmann et al. 2013, Hofmann et al. 2013, Hofmann and Hautmann 2013, Hsu 1937, Kumagae and Nakazawa 2009, Nakazawa 1971, Neri and Posenato 1985, Newell and Kummel 1942, Ogilvie Gordon 1927, Pan et al. 2014, Powell et al. 2019 and Wissmann 1841

Sister taxa: Unionites albertii, Unionites bittneri, Unionites borealis, Unionites breviformis, Unionites brevis, Unionites canalensis, Unionites donacinus, Unionites elisabethae, 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 sublettica, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora telleri, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora recta, Myacites depressus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites faba, Myacites grandis, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites baconicus, Myacites obtusus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites radiatus

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (7 collections), China (33), Croatia (3), Greenland (6), Hungary (10), Italy (5), Japan (6), Jordan (1), the Russian Federation (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (8), United States (17: Montana, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 102 collections each including a single occurrence

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