Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Alternative combination: Anodontophora ovalis
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 Unionites according to Z. W. Gu et al. 1976
Sister taxa: 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 posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites subrectus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Myacites faba, Myacites obtusus, Myacites radiatus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites depressus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites grandis, Myacites musculoides, Myacites baconicus, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora isocardioides
Type specimen: Its type locality is Otamita Stream (Bed "C"), which is in a Carnian marine shale in New Zealand
Distribution:
• Triassic of New Zealand (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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