Storthodon Giebel 1856 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae

Full reference: C. G. Giebel. 1856. Die Versteinerungen in Muschelkalk von Lieskau bei Halle. Abhandlungen Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines 1:53-126

Parent taxon: Thyasiridae according to S. Ros-Franch et al. 2014

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Adontorhina, Axinopsida, Axinopsidinae, Axinulus, Axinus, Conchocele, Cretaxinus, Eothyasira, Genaxinus, Leptaxinus, Parathyasira, Rhacothyas, Tauraxinus, Thyasira, Thyasirinae

Subtaxa: Storthodon liscaviensis

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Type: Storthodon liscaviensis

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder-chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Lieskau Quarry, Halle (Triassic of Germany)

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