Neoschizodus Giebel 1855 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae

Alternative spelling: Myophoria (Neoschizodus)

Parent taxon: Myophoriidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Gu et al. 1976, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acanomyphoria, Amlerella, Atalantia, Baidiostraca, Caledogonia, Costatoria, Dolabra, Elegantinia, Erugonia, Gruenewaldia, Guizhoumyophoria, Hefteria, Heminajas, Myophoria, Paraschizodus, Rhenania, Rhenanomya, Toechomya, Trionychodia, Yangella, Cytherodon

Subtaxa: Myophoria (Neoschizodus) kreitneri Neoschizodus (Leviconcha) Neoschizodus (Okunominetania) Neoschizodus cardissoides Neoschizodus elongatus Neoschizodus elongatus Neoschizodus elongatus Neoschizodus hubeiensis Neoschizodus kitakamiensis Neoschizodus kobayashii Neoschizodus kolymensis Neoschizodus laevigatus Neoschizodus mongumensis Neoschizodus orbicularis Neoschizodus ovatus Neoschizodus permicus Neoschizodus praeorbicularis Neoschizodus thaynesianus

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Afghanistan (14 collections), Algeria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (5), Canada (2: Nunavut), Chile (2), China (70), Croatia (5), Egypt (1), Germany (20), Hungary (63), India (2), Israel (2), Italy (112), Japan (13), Jordan (2), Kazakhstan (2), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (44), Spain (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), Tunisia (1), United States (47: Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (4)

• Permian to Triassic of China (16)

• Permian of China (4), Japan (3)

Total: 450 collections including 536 occurrences

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