Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae

Full reference: K. Hryniewicz, C. T. Little, and H. A. Nakrem. 2014. Bivalves from the latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep carbonates from central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Zootaxa 3859(1):1-66

Parent taxon: Thyasiridae according to K. Hryniewicz et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Adontorhina, Axinopsida, Axinopsidinae, Axinulus, Axinus, Conchocele, Eothyasira, Genaxinus, Leptaxinus, Parathyasira, Rhacothyas, Storthodon, Tauraxinus, Thyasira, Thyasirinae

Subtaxa: Cretaxinus hurumi

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder-chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Seep 9, Knorringfjellet (Cretaceous of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

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