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