Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Alternative combination: Megalodon globularis
Full reference: C. T. Trechmann. 1917. The Trias of New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 73(3):165-246
Belongs to Mysidioptera according to J. B. Waterhouse 1960
Sister taxa: Mysidioptera (Pseudacesta), Mysidioptera ambigua, Mysidioptera ampezzana, Mysidioptera angusticostata, Mysidioptera aviculaeformis, Mysidioptera baconica, Mysidioptera bassanii, Mysidioptera beneckei, Mysidioptera bittneri, Mysidioptera cainalli, Mysidioptera carinata, Mysidioptera cassiana, Mysidioptera cimbrianica, Mysidioptera compressa, Mysidioptera crassicostata, Mysidioptera densestriata, Mysidioptera dieneri, Mysidioptera dinarica, Mysidioptera dubiosa, Mysidioptera elongata, Mysidioptera emiliae, Mysidioptera fassaensis, Mysidioptera finkelsteini, Mysidioptera fornicata, Mysidioptera glaberrima, Mysidioptera globosa, Mysidioptera gracilis, Mysidioptera gremblichii, Mysidioptera inaequicostata, Mysidioptera interrupta, Mysidioptera intertexta, Mysidioptera inversa, Mysidioptera kittlii, Mysidioptera klipsteiniana, Mysidioptera kochi, Mysidioptera laczkoi, Mysidioptera latifissa, Mysidioptera marginata, Mysidioptera multicostata, Mysidioptera multistriata, Mysidioptera obliqua, Mysidioptera oblonga, Mysidioptera obscura, Mysidioptera ornata, Mysidioptera planata, Mysidioptera punctata, Mysidioptera readi, Mysidioptera reyeri, Mysidioptera riceae, Mysidioptera rotunda, Mysidioptera silvatica, Mysidioptera similis, Mysidioptera spinescens, Mysidioptera spinigera, Mysidioptera striata, Mysidioptera striatula, Mysidioptera tenella, Mysidioptera tenuicostata, Mysidioptera vixcostata, Mysidioptera woehrmanni
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of New Zealand (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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