Bivalvia - Ostreida - Cassianellidae
Full reference: A. Bittner. 1891. Triaspetrefakten von Balia in Kleinasien. Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich-Königlichen, Geologischen Reichsanstalt 41:97-116
Belongs to Cassianella according to C. R. Newton et al. 1987
See also Bittner 1901 and Ros-Franch et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Cassianella ampezzana, Cassianella angustula, Cassianella avicularaeformis, Cassianella beyrichii, Cassianella bicostata, Cassianella carinthiaca, Cassianella cordillerana, Cassianella decussata, Cassianella dieneri, Cassianella elegantula, Cassianella euglypha, Cassianella euglyphoides, Cassianella gallensteini, Cassianella gravinaensis, Cassianella gryphaeata, Cassianella johannisboehmi, Cassianella katialotica, Cassianella launsdorfiensis, Cassianella lineata, Cassianella lingulata, Cassianella nyanangensis, Cassianella peruana, Cassianella planata, Cassianella pseudoavicularis, Cassianella robusta, Cassianella shastensis, Cassianella simplex, Cassianella simplex, Cassianella sturi, Cassianella subeuglypha, Cassianella symmetrica, Cassianella tenuistria, Cassianella verbeeki
Type specimen: Its type locality is Balia (Spirigera beds), which is in a Triassic marine sandstone in Turkey
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (2 collections), Hungary (6), Italy (4), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Turkey (1), United States (2: Oregon)
Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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