Myophoria brockensis Smith 1927 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae

Full reference: J. P. Smith. 1927. Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 141:1-262

Belongs to Myophoria according to J. P. Smith 1927

Sister taxa: Myophoria (Rhenania), Myophoria (Tropiphora), Myophoria acuticostata, Myophoria adornata, Myophoria ambilineata, Myophoria beringiana, Myophoria bittneri, Myophoria blainvillei, Myophoria blakei, Myophoria cairnesi, Myophoria chenopus, Myophoria costulata, Myophoria coxi, Myophoria ebbae, Myophoria elliptica, Myophoria germanica, Myophoria goldfussi, Myophoria harpa, Myophoria heslingtonensis, Myophoria humboldtensis, Myophoria incurvata, Myophoria inflata, Myophoria intermedia, Myophoria kefersteini, Myophoria kokeni, Myophoria kuuoruensis, Myophoria liasica, Myophoria maxima, Myophoria mexicana, Myophoria nifukokoensis, Myophoria ornata, Myophoria picta, Myophoria proharpa, Myophoria reziae, Myophoria solitaria, Myophoria staggi, Myophoria stenonis, Myophoria subtrigonata, Myophoria subvestita, Myophoria timorensis, Myophoria transversa, Myophoria vestita, Myophoria volzi, Myophoria vulgaris, Myophoria zeballos, Trigonellites vulgaris

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bear Cove, north end and east side of Brock Mountain, which is in a Tuvalian carbonate limestone in the Hosselkus Formation of California

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bear Cove, north end and east side of Brock Mountain

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