Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
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 Anoplophora according to J. P. Smith 1927
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 ovalis, Unionites posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites subrectus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Myacites grandis, Myacites musculoides, Myacites obtusus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites radiatus, Myacites baconicus, Myacites faba, Myacites depressus, Myacites inconspicuus, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora liasokeuperina, Anoplophora torreana
Type specimen: Its type locality is North Fork of Sulanharas Creek, 3 miles north of Kelly's ranch, which is in a Tuvalian carbonate limestone in the Hosselkus Formation of California
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at North Fork of Sulanharas Creek, 3 miles north of Kelly's ranch
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