Myophoria mexicana de Cserna 1961 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae

Full reference: G. A. de Cserna. 1961. Paleontología del Triásico superior de Sonora. Parte III. Fauna fósil de la formación Santa Clara (Cárnico) del Estado de Sonora. Paleontologia Mexicana 11:44pp

Belongs to Myophoria according to G. A. de Cserna 1961

Sister taxa: Myophoria (Rhenania), Myophoria (Tropiphora), Myophoria acuticostata, Myophoria adornata, Myophoria ambilineata, Myophoria beringiana, Myophoria bittneri, Myophoria blainvillei, Myophoria blakei, Myophoria brockensis, Myophoria cairnesi, Myophoria chenopus, Myophoria costulata, Myophoria coxi, Myophoria ebbae, Myophoria elliptica, Myophoria germanica, Myophoria goldfussi, Myophoria harpa, Myophoria heslingtonensis, Myophoria humboldtensis, Myophoria incurvata, Myophoria inflata, Myophoria intermedia, Myophoria kefersteini, Myophoria kokeni, Myophoria kuuoruensis, Myophoria liasica, Myophoria maxima, Myophoria nifukokoensis, Myophoria ornata, Myophoria picta, Myophoria proharpa, Myophoria reziae, Myophoria solitaria, Myophoria staggi, Myophoria stenonis, Myophoria subtrigonata, Myophoria subvestita, Myophoria timorensis, Myophoria transversa, Myophoria vestita, Myophoria volzi, Myophoria vulgaris, Myophoria zeballos, Trigonellites vulgaris

Type specimen: Its type locality is Santa Clara, Sierras Alargadas, which is in a Carnian marginal marine horizon in the Santa Clara Formation of Mexico

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Santa Clara, Sierras Alargadas

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