Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae

Alternative combination: Lithodomus inflexus

Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1897. Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:3-48

Belongs to Lithophaga according to E. Dartevelle and S. Freneix 1957

See also von Koenen 1897

Sister taxa: Lithophaga (Diberus), Lithophaga (Labis), Lithophaga (Leiosolenus), Lithophaga (Lithophaga), Lithophaga (Myoforceps), Lithophaga affinis, Lithophaga antillarum, Lithophaga aristata, Lithophaga atavus, Lithophaga bisulcata, Lithophaga carolinensis, Lithophaga conchafodentis, Lithophaga consobrina, Lithophaga cordata, Lithophaga elongata, Lithophaga fabella, Lithophaga gigantea, Lithophaga gracilis, Lithophaga inclusa, Lithophaga lingua, Lithophaga lithophaga, Lithophaga lycetti, Lithophaga maikaensis, Lithophaga mucronata, Lithophaga nasuta, Lithophaga nigra, Lithophaga nuda, Lithophaga petricolides, Lithophaga petricoloides, Lithophaga praelonga, Lithophaga subalveata, Lithophaga subelliptica, Lithophaga teres, Lithophaga tubicola, Lithophaga turneri, Lithophaga yorkensis, Lithodomus beetzi, Lithodomus claibornensis, Lithodomus hemirhabdota, Lithodomus sublithophagus, Lithodomus brevis, Lithodomus portlandicus, Lithodomus permianus, Lithodomus australis

Ecology: stationary boring suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mungo River, between Mundame and Eliki (Cretaceous of Cameroon)

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