Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Full reference: J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1-523
Belongs to Unio according to J. Phillips 1871
Sister taxa: Unio (Palaeunio), Unio belliplicatus, Unio bitumen, Unio carteri, Unio deserticus, Unio franconica, Unio galloprovincialis, Unio hamili, Unio hubbardii, Unio hunteri, Unio imbricatus, Unio johnstoni, Unio kirchbergensis, Unio littoralis, Unio mamillatus, Unio natosini, Unio patapscoensis, Unio penultimus, Unio peregrinus, Unio pictorum, Unio rackianus, Unio regularis, Unio scrobicularioides, Unio sparsa, Unio tumidus, Unio vetustus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Shotover Hill, Iron Sands, which is in a Tithonian marine sandstone in the Iron Sands Formation of the United Kingdom
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Shotover Hill, Iron Sands
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