Tugonia RĊ½cluz 1846 (softshell clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae

Parent taxon: Myidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Lamprell and Healy 1998 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Cryptomya, Cryptomyinae, Mya, Myinae, Paramya, Platyodon, Sphenia, Spheniinae, Venatomya

Subtaxa: Tugonia (Antiguamya) Tugonia (Distugonia) Tugonia (Tugoniopsis)

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Gebel Duwi, Egypt (Eocene of Egypt)

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