Leptaxinus Verrill 1898 (clam)

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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