Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Full reference: L. R. Cox. 1935. Jurassic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia. The Mesozoic Palaeontology of British Somaliland, Geology and Palaeontology of British Somaliland, II 148-197
Belongs to Posidonia according to L. R. Cox 1935
Sister taxa: Posidonia affinis, Posidonia becheri, Posidonia bittneri, Posidonia blatchleyi, Posidonia christophori, Posidonia daytonensis, Posidonia dianensis, Posidonia ekiatapensis, Posidonia elegans, Posidonia gemmellaroi, Posidonia germari, Posidonia gibbosa, Posidonia girtyi, Posidonia idriana, Posidonia jacksoni, Posidonia lineolata, Posidonia madisonensis, Posidonia minuta, Posidonia multicostata, Posidonia nodosocostata, Posidonia obliqua, Posidonia obsoletestriata, Posidonia olenekensis, Posidonia ovalis, Posidonia pannonica, Posidonia praealpina, Posidonia semiundata, Posidonia stella, Posidonia subtilis, Posidonia triangularis, Posidonia wengensis, Posidonomya incerta, Posidonomya orbicularis, Posidonomya hausmanni, Posidonomya moneta, Posidonomya pergamena, Posidonomya backlundi, Posidonomya laevis, Posidonomya fragosa, Posidonomya bosniaca, Posidonomya devonica, Posidonomya fasciata
Type specimen: Its type locality is Daghani, bed 207, which is in a Kimmeridgian offshore shale in the Daghani Shale Formation of Somalia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Somalia (3 collections), Yemen (4)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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