Bivalvia - Pectinida - Claraiidae
Alternative combinations: Avicula clarai, Claraia clarae, Posidonomya clarae, Pseudomonotis (Claraia) clarai, Pseudomonotis clarai
Belongs to Claraia according to R. Hofmann et al. 2015
See also Bittner 1901, Ciriacks 1963, Hsu 1937, Lepsius 1878, Newell and Boyd 1995, Newell and Kummel 1942, Ogilvie Gordon 1927 and Stoyanow 1910
Sister taxa: Claraia (Pteroclaraia), Claraia amygdaliformis, Claraia anulata, Claraia aurita, Claraia bioni, Claraia bittneri, Claraia chakkapaki, Claraia concentrica, Claraia dieneri, Claraia extrema, Claraia fenghaiensis, Claraia fukianensis, Claraia griesbachi, Claraia guangyuanensis, Claraia guizhouensis, Claraia hunanica, Claraia intermedia, Claraia jiangyouensis, Claraia liuqiaoensis, Claraia longyanensis, Claraia mulleri, Claraia ovalis, Claraia pamirensis, Claraia perthensis, Claraia posidoniformis, Claraia pulchella, Claraia punjabiensis, Claraia radialis, Claraia shabaonica, Claraia stachei, Claraia stavropolica, Claraia subwangi, Claraia vozini, Claraia wangi, Claraia zhongzaiensis, Pseudomonotis (Claraia) extrema, Pseudomonotis (Claraia) intermediaeformis, Pseudomonotis (Claraia) kilenensis, Pseudomonotis (Claraia) subaurita, Pseudoclaraia aurantiformis, Peribositra baoqingensis
Type specimen: University of Wisconsin, No. 21343. Its type locality is Meadow Creek Canyon, Claraia zone, Fremont County, which is in a Griesbachian marine limestone in the Dinwoody Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Armenia (1 collection), Azerbaijan (7), Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), China (10), Croatia (1), Hungary (17), Iran (1), Italy (27), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (4: Montana, Nevada, Wyoming)
Total: 73 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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