Myoconcha borealis Lundgren 1895 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae

Full reference: B. Lundgren. 1895. Jurafossil fran Kap Stewart i Ost-Gronland. Meddelelser om Gronland 7:191-214

Belongs to Myoconcha according to B. Lundgren 1895

Sister taxa: Myoconcha (Modiolina), Myoconcha acquatensis, Myoconcha actaeon, Myoconcha americana, Myoconcha amnipacis, Myoconcha appeli, Myoconcha aspasia, Myoconcha auriculata, Myoconcha broilii, Myoconcha brunneri, Myoconcha costulata, Myoconcha crassa, Myoconcha curvata, Myoconcha decorata, Myoconcha delawarensis, Myoconcha epigonus, Myoconcha giebeli, Myoconcha gregaria, Myoconcha huancangensis, Myoconcha joanniswanneri, Myoconcha laevis, Myoconcha loeschmanni, Myoconcha maximiliani, Myoconcha muelleri, Myoconcha nana, Myoconcha neuquena, Myoconcha parvula, Myoconcha pavida, Myoconcha plana, Myoconcha psilonoti, Myoconcha ptychitum, Myoconcha qingyanensis, Myoconcha rathieri, Myoconcha recta, Myoconcha retroflexa, Myoconcha roemeri, Myoconcha rugulosa, Myoconcha scabra, Myoconcha taegeri, Myoconcha timorensis, Myoconcha weiri, Myoconcha wohrmanni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cape Stewart (black limestone), which is in a Pliensbachian carbonate limestone in the Cape Stewart Beds Formation of Greenland

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Myoconcha borealis in the database

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