Myophorigonia Cox 1952 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae

Full reference: L. R. Cox. 1952. Notes on the Trigoniidae, with outlines of a classification of the family. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 29:45-70

Parent taxon: Trigoniidae according to L. R. Cox 1952

See also Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Tamura and McRoberts 1993

Sister taxa: Actinotrigonia, Asiatotrigonia, Buchotrigonia, Climacotrigonia, Eotrigonia, Geratrigonia, Heterotrigonia, Ibotrigonia, Korobkovitrigonia, Kyushutrigonia, Latitrigonia, Linotrigonia, Liotrigonia, Luxitrigonia, Lyroschizodus, Maputrigonia, Megatrigonia, Mesotrigonia, Microtrigonia, Minetrigonia, Minetrigoniinae, Neotrigonia, Neuquenitrigoniinae, Nipponitrigonia, Nototrigonia, Nototrigoniinae, Opisthotrigonia, Pacitrigonia, Pleurotrigoniinae, Prorotrigonia, Psilotrigoniinae, Quadratotrigonia, Quoiecchia, Rutitrigonia, Sichuantrigonia, Sphenotrigonia, Trigoniinae, Turbitrigonia, Lyrodon

Subtaxa: Myophorigonia jaworskii Myophorigonia kobayashii Myophorigonia margaritifera Myophorigonia parcinoda Myophorigonia paucicostata Myophorigonia salasi

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Chile (7 collections)

• Triassic of Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Mexico (4), Peru (7), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (1: Oregon)

Total: 23 collections including 25 occurrences

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