Myonia carinella Runnegar 1967 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Full reference: B. Runnegar. 1967. Desmodont bivalves from the Permian of eastern Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 96:1-108

Belongs to Myonia according to J. B. Waterhouse 1980

See also Runnegar 1967

Sister taxa: Myonia (Myomedia), Myonia (Myonia), Myonia arbitrata, Myonia argentinensis, Myonia compacta, Myonia elongata, Myonia gibbosa, Myonia komiensiformis, Myonia komiensis, Myonia kutygini, Myonia ovata, Myonia parallela, Myonia pollocki, Myonia sinuosa, Myonia undata, Myonia wenxingchangensis

Type specimen: UQ F50996. Its type locality is UQ L3134, Parrot Creek, Mulgrave Yards, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine siliciclastic in the Blenheim Formation of Australia.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (3 collections), New Zealand (1)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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