Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Full reference: T. P. Poulton. 1979. Jurassic Trigoniid Bivalves from Canada and Western United States of America. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 282
Belongs to Vaugonia according to T. P. Poulton 1979
Sister taxa: Vaugonia (Hijitrigonia), Vaugonia (Vaugonia), Vaugonia angulata, Vaugonia clythia, Vaugonia detrita, Vaugonia doroschini, Vaugonia flecta, Vaugonia flexicostata, Vaugonia goodalli, Vaugonia gottschei, Vaugonia hauchcornei, Vaugonia kobayashii, Vaugonia niranohamensis, Vaugonia obliqua, Vaugonia substriata, Vaugonia tripartita, Vaugonia utahensis, Vaugonia vcostata, Vaugonia veronica, Vaugonia yukonensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic loc19962, 19948, which is in a Bajocian marine sandstone/conglomerate in the Gaikema Formation of Alaska.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at USGS Mesozoic loc. 19962, 19948
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