Megalonaias Utterback 1915 (freshwater mussel)
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Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Parent taxon: Megalonaiadinae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Amblema, Amblemini, Lampsilini, Oxynaiini, Pleurobemini, Quadrulini, Popenaias, Ptychobranchus, Proptera, Cyprogenia, Medionidus, Friersonia
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at AF (Eocene of Texas)
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