Leptaxinus Verrill 1898 (clam)
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Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Parent taxon: Thyasiridae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Lamprell and Healy 1998 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Adontorhina, Axinopsida, Axinopsidinae, Axinulus, Axinus, Conchocele, Cretaxinus, Eothyasira, Genaxinus, Parathyasira, Rhacothyas, Storthodon, Tauraxinus, Thyasira, Thyasirinae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder-chemosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at Antwerp area [Petaloconchus bed, Kattendijk Fm] (Pliocene of Belgium)
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