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 edmondiiformis, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora omolonica, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora liasokeuperina, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora recta, Myacites radiatus, Myacites grandis, Myacites depressus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites musculoides, Myacites obtusus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites faba, Myacites baconicus
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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