Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Alternative combinations: Astarte nebrascensis, Edmondia nebraskensis
Full reference: N.B. Geinitz. 1866. Carbonformation und Dyas in Nebraska. Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie Naturforscher Verhandlungen 33:1-92
Belongs to Edmondia according to Z.J. Fang 1987
See also Frech 1911, Geinitz 1866, Mark 1912 and Muromtseva and Guskov 1984
Sister taxa: Edmondia acutangula, Edmondia anodontoides, Edmondia aspenwallensis, Edmondia aspinwallensis, Edmondia athenae, Edmondia bellula, Edmondia circularis, Edmondia crassa, Edmondia dubia, Edmondia elongata, Edmondia equilateralis, Edmondia filigrana, Edmondia gibbosa, Edmondia glabra, Edmondia grandis, Edmondia guembeli, Edmondia hamlingii, Edmondia hautmanni, Edmondia hudsoni, Edmondia isocosmica, Edmondia medon, Edmondia meekiana, Edmondia multilamellosa, Edmondia netschajewi, Edmondia nodulifera, Edmondia omolonica, Edmondia ovata, Edmondia phosphatica, Edmondia pinonensis, Edmondia pitkinensis, Edmondia prichardi, Edmondia radiata, Edmondia rotunda, Edmondia rudis, Edmondia soleniformis, Edmondia suborbiculata, Edmondia suborbiculata, Edmondia sulcata, Edmondia tiesseni, Edmondia unioniformis, Edmondia vetusta, Edmondia yachihoensis, Broeckia primula
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (9 collections), the Russian Federation (2), United States (6: Kansas)
• Carboniferous of United States (22: Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio)
Total: 39 collections each including a single occurrence
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