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 brockensis, Myophoria cairnesi, Myophoria chenopus, Myophoria costulata, Myophoria coxi, Myophoria ebbae, Myophoria elliptica, Myophoria germanica, Myophoria goldfussi, Myophoria harpa, Myophoria heslingtonensis, 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 Muttleberry Canyon, West Humboldt Range, which is in a Sevatian marine shale in Nevada
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Muttleberry Canyon, West Humboldt Range
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