Unionites sorokovi Kurushin 1992 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae

Full reference: N. I. Kurushin. 1992. Triasovye Paleogeterodontnye i Geterodontnye Dvustvorki Sibiri. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki 742:1-86

Belongs to Unionites according to N. I. Kurushin 1992

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

Type specimen: TsSGM 950/38, a valve (Left valve). Its type locality is Airkat Cape, Upper Anisian, Anabar River, Laptev Sea, which is in an Illyrian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Airkat Cape, Upper Anisian, Anabar River, Laptev Sea

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