Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Alternative combination: Anodontophora borealis
Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1935. Additions to the Eo-Triassic invertebrate fauna of east Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 98(2):1-115
Belongs to Unionites according to M. Hautmann et al. 2013
See also Spath 1935
Sister taxa: Unionites albertii, Unionites bittneri, 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, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora elongata, Anoplophora liasokeuperina, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora shastensis, Myacites baconicus, Myacites faba, Myacites depressus, Myacites obtusus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites radiatus, Myacites grandis, Myacites musculoides, Myacites inconspicuus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Cape Stosch, plateau west of River 6, Locality 201, which is in a Griesbachian marine horizon in the Wordie Creek Formation of Greenland
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Greenland (1 collection), United States (1: Utah)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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