Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Full reference: C. A. Fleming. 1962. Two new genera of Triassic Trigoniidae from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 35:1-4
Parent taxon: Minetrigoniidae according to S. Ros-Franch et al. 2014
See also Fleming 1962 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Perugonia
Subtaxa: Maoritrigonia beringica Maoritrigonia chekhovi Maoritrigonia columbiana Maoritrigonia mollesensis Maoritrigonia nuggetensis Maoritrigonia otamitensis Maoritrigonia pirouteti Maoritrigonia sparsicostata
Type: Myophoria nuggetensis
Ecology: fast-moving shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (2: British Columbia collections), Chile (2), New Caledonia (3), New Zealand (5), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 17 collections including 19 occurrences
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