Mysidioptera ornata Salomon 1895 (file clam)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

Full reference: W. Salomon. 1895. Geologische und palaeontologische Studien uber die Marmolata. Palaeontographica 42:1-210

Belongs to Mysidioptera according to Salomon 1895

Sister taxa: Mysidioptera (Pseudacesta), Mysidioptera ambigua, Mysidioptera ampezzana, Mysidioptera angusticostata, Mysidioptera aviculaeformis, Mysidioptera baconica, Mysidioptera bassanii, Mysidioptera beneckei, Mysidioptera bittneri, Mysidioptera cainalli, Mysidioptera carinata, Mysidioptera cassiana, Mysidioptera cimbrianica, Mysidioptera compressa, Mysidioptera crassicostata, Mysidioptera densestriata, Mysidioptera dieneri, Mysidioptera dinarica, Mysidioptera dubiosa, Mysidioptera elongata, Mysidioptera emiliae, Mysidioptera fassaensis, Mysidioptera finkelsteini, Mysidioptera fornicata, Mysidioptera glaberrima, Mysidioptera globosa, Mysidioptera globularis, Mysidioptera gracilis, Mysidioptera gremblichii, Mysidioptera inaequicostata, Mysidioptera interrupta, Mysidioptera intertexta, Mysidioptera inversa, Mysidioptera kittlii, Mysidioptera klipsteiniana, Mysidioptera kochi, Mysidioptera laczkoi, Mysidioptera latifissa, Mysidioptera marginata, Mysidioptera multicostata, Mysidioptera multistriata, Mysidioptera obliqua, Mysidioptera oblonga, Mysidioptera obscura, Mysidioptera planata, Mysidioptera punctata, Mysidioptera readi, Mysidioptera reyeri, Mysidioptera riceae, Mysidioptera rotunda, Mysidioptera silvatica, Mysidioptera similis, Mysidioptera spinescens, Mysidioptera spinigera, Mysidioptera striata, Mysidioptera striatula, Mysidioptera tenella, Mysidioptera tenuicostata, Mysidioptera vixcostata, Mysidioptera woehrmanni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Rosalia Valley (Marmolata), which is in a Triassic marine horizon in the Marmolata Formation of Italy

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Rosalia Valley (Marmolata)

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