Goniophorina Isberg 1934 (clam)

Bivalvia - Heteroconchia - Lipanellidae

Synonym: Digoniomya Whidborne 1897

Full reference: O. Isberg. 1934. Studien über Lamellibranchiaten des Leptaenakalkes in Dalarna. Håkan Ohlssons Buchdruckerei 1-493

Parent taxon: Lipanellidae according to T. M. Sánchez 2005

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Sepkoski 2002 and Toni 1975

Sister taxa: Lipanella, Paraphtonia

Subtaxa: Cosmogoniophorina Goniophorina (Goniophorina) Goniophorina carinata Goniophorina nitidula Goniophorina semiradiata Goniophorina volvens

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Silurian of the Czech Republic (2 collections), Jordan (2)

• Arenig of Argentina (3), Bolivia (1)

• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Bolivia (1), China (2), the Czech Republic (2), Norway (1), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 19 collections including 20 occurrences

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