Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Alternative combination: Anodontophora breviformis
Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1935. Additions to the Eo-Triassic invertebrate fauna of east Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 98(2):1-115
Belongs to Unionites according to K.W. Ciriacks 1963
Sister taxa: Unionites albertii, Unionites bittneri, Unionites borealis, Unionites brevis, Unionites canalensis, Unionites donacinus, Unionites elisabethae, Unionites fassaensis, Unionites gregarius, Unionites griesbachi, Unionites guizhouensis, Unionites jacobi, Unionites kobyumensis, Unionites letticus, Unionites manmuensis, Unionites minimus, Unionites muensteri, Unionites ovalis, Unionites posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites subrectus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora subovalis, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora torreana, Myacites obtusus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites faba, Myacites radiatus, Myacites baconicus, Myacites grandis, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites depressus
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Greenland (17 collections), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (10)
Total: 27 collections each including a single occurrence
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