Bivalvia - Pectinida - Claraiidae
Alternative combinations: Posidonomya aurita, Pseudomonotis (Claraia) aurita, Pseudomonotis aurita, Rugiclaraia aurita
Synonym: Pseudomonotis ovata Schauroth 1865
Belongs to Claraia according to R. Hofmann et al. 2015
See also Bittner 1901, Chen 1982, Chen et al. 1974, Frech 1912, Gavrilova 1998, Hofmann et al. 2013, Lepsius 1878, Ogilvie Gordon 1927, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Salomon 1895 and Yang et al. 1986
Sister taxa: Claraia (Pteroclaraia), Claraia amygdaliformis, Claraia anulata, Claraia bittneri, Claraia chakkapaki, Claraia clarai, Claraia concentrica, Claraia dieneri, Claraia extrema, Claraia fenghaiensis, Claraia fukianensis, Claraia griesbachi, Claraia guangyuanensis, Claraia guizhouensis, Claraia hunanica, Claraia intermedia, Claraia jiangyouensis, Claraia liuqiaoensis, Claraia longyanensis, Claraia mulleri, Claraia ovalis, Claraia pamirensis, Claraia perthensis, Claraia posidoniformis, Claraia pulchella, Claraia punjabiensis, Claraia radialis, Claraia shabaonica, Claraia stachei, Claraia stavropolica, Claraia subwangi, Claraia vozini, Claraia wangi, Claraia zhongzaiensis, Pseudomonotis (Claraia) extrema, Pseudomonotis (Claraia) intermediaeformis, Pseudomonotis (Claraia) kilenensis, Pseudomonotis (Claraia) subaurita, Peribositra bioni, Peribositra baoqingensis, Pseudoclaraia aurantiformis
Subtaxa: Claraia aurita haueri
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Armenia (3 collections), Azerbaijan (5), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (29), Croatia (1), Hungary (12), Iran (10), Italy (59), Jordan (1), the Russian Federation (3), Turkmenistan (1), United States (2: Montana, Nevada), Vietnam (3)
Total: 130 collections including 135 occurrences
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