Tugonia RĊ½cluz 1846 (softshell clam)
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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)
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Gebel Duwi, Egypt (Eocene of Egypt)
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