Unio scrobicularioides Frič 1869 (freshwater mussel)

Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae

Full reference: A. Frič. 1869. Palaeontologische Untersuchungen der einzelnen Schichten in der böhmischen Kreideformation. Archiv für die Naturwissenschaftliche Landesdurchforschung von Böhmen 1(2):181-242

Belongs to Unio according to A. Frič 1869

Sister taxa: Unio (Palaeunio), Unio belliplicatus, Unio bitumen, Unio carteri, Unio deserticus, Unio franconica, Unio galloprovincialis, Unio hamili, Unio hubbardii, Unio hunteri, Unio imbricatus, Unio johnstoni, Unio kirchbergensis, Unio littoralis, Unio mamillatus, Unio natosini, Unio patapscoensis, Unio penultimus, Unio peregrinus, Unio pictorum, Unio rackianus, Unio regularis, Unio sparsa, Unio stricklandii, Unio tumidus, Unio vetustus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kounic, which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial shale in the Peruc-Korycany Formation of Czechia

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Kounic

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