Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Full reference: D. W. Boyd and N. D. Newell. 1997. A reappraisal of Trigoniacean families (Bivalvia) and a description of two new Early Triassic species. American Museum Novitates 3216:1-14
Belongs to Neoschizodus according to D. W. Boyd and N. D. Newell 1997
Sister taxa: Myophoria (Neoschizodus) kreitneri, Neoschizodus (Leviconcha), Neoschizodus (Okunominetania), Neoschizodus cardissoides, 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
Type specimen: AMNH 44075, a valve (Right valve). Its type locality is AMNH B7979, Cottonwood Pass, which is in a Spathian shallow subtidal limestone in the Moenkopi Formation of Nevada.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (3: Nevada collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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