Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Alternative combinations: Claraia aranea, Posidonia aranea
Full reference: E. T. Tozer. 1961. Triassic stratigraphy and faunas, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 316:1-116
Belongs to Ellesmerella according to Waterhouse 2008
See also Bychkov et al. 1976, Dagis et al. 1996 and Tozer 1961
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GSC 14202, a valve (Right valve). Its type locality is GSC 28450, Otto Fiord, Ellesmere Island, which is in a Spathian deep-water siliciclastic in the Blind Fiord Formation of Canada.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (6: British Columbia, Nunavut collections), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (6)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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