Myonia parallela Dun 1932 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Full reference: W. S. Dun. 1932. The lower marine forms of Myonia with notes on the proposed new genus Pachymyonia. Records of the Australian Museum 18:411-414

Belongs to Myonia according to W. G. H. Maxwell 1964

See also Dun 1932

Sister taxa: Myonia (Myomedia), Myonia (Myonia), Myonia arbitrata, Myonia argentinensis, Myonia carinella, Myonia compacta, Myonia elongata, Myonia gibbosa, Myonia komiensiformis, Myonia komiensis, Myonia kutygini, Myonia ovata, Myonia pollocki, Myonia sinuosa, Myonia undata, Myonia wenxingchangensis

Type specimen: AM F.2473. Its type locality is Harper's Hill, Hunter Valley (MM coll), which is in a Sakmarian coastal sandstone in the Allandale Formation of Australia.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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