Unionites Wissman 1841 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae

Invalid subtaxa: Anodontophora Cossmann 1897, Anodontophora (Myacites) Schlotheim 1820 [replaced name], Anoplophora Alberti 1864, Myacites Schlotheim 1820 [replaced name]

Parent taxon: Anthracosiidae according to W. J. Foster et al. 2017

See also Biakov and Kutygin 2021, Frech 1912, Geyer et al. 2005, Grant-Mackie 2013, Meek 1864, Meek 1873, MolluscaBase 2023, Ogilvie Gordon 1927, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Anthracomya, Carbonicola

Subtaxa: Anodontophora angulata Anodontophora conjugens Anodontophora edmondiiformis Anodontophora elongata Anodontophora omolonica Anodontophora purdoni Anodontophora sublettica Anodontophora subovalis Anodontophora telleri Anoplophora isocardioides Anoplophora pappi Anoplophora recta Anoplophora shastensis Anoplophora torreana Myacites (Pleuromya) Myacites baconicus Myacites depressus Myacites faba Myacites grandis Myacites inconspicuus Myacites musculoides Myacites obtusus Myacites radiatus Unionites albertii Unionites bittneri Unionites borealis Unionites breviformis Unionites brevis Unionites canalensis Unionites donacinus Unionites elisabethae Unionites fassaensis Unionites gregarius Unionites griesbachi Unionites guizhouensis Unionites jacobi Unionites kobyumensis Unionites letticus Unionites manmuensis Unionites minimus Unionites muensteri Unionites ovalis Unionites posterus Unionites rhomboidalis Unionites sorokovi Unionites spicatus Unionites subrectus Unionites trapezoidalis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (2 collections), United States (70: Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming)

• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (11), Canada (5: British Columbia), Chile (1), China (76), Croatia (6), Egypt (1), Germany (16), Greenland (45), Hungary (72), Indonesia (7), Iran (7), Israel (1), Italy (122), Japan (13), Jordan (6), Kazakhstan (1), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (2), Oman (1), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (30), Slovenia (1), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (34), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (2), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (99: California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (6)

• Permian of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Italy (36), Pakistan (5), the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 693 collections including 780 occurrences

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