Loxopteria Frech 1891 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Dualinidae

Full reference: F. Frech. 1891. Die devonischen Aviculiden Deutschlands. Abhandlungen zur Geologischen Specialkarte von Presussen und den Thüringischen Staaten 9(3):1-261

Parent taxon: Loxopteriinae according to R. T. Becker et al. 2016

See also Nagel-Myers et al. 2009

Sister taxon: Elasmatium

Subtaxa: Loxopteria dispar Loxopteria gibbosa

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Type: Avicula dispar

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bergisches Land (Rhenish Massif), Germany; Knoppenbiessen-beds (Devonian of Germany)

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