Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Belongs to Myacites according to Schlotheim 1820
Sister taxa: Unionites albertii, Unionites bittneri, Unionites borealis, Unionites breviformis, Unionites brevis, Unionites canalensis, Unionites donacinus, Unionites elisabethae, Unionites fassaensis, Unionites gregarius, Unionites griesbachi, Unionites guizhouensis, Unionites jacobi, Unionites kobyumensis, Unionites letticus, Unionites manmuensis, Unionites minimus, Unionites muensteri, Unionites ovalis, Unionites posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites subrectus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Myacites obtusus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites baconicus, Myacites radiatus, Myacites depressus, Myacites faba, Myacites grandis, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora sublettica, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora liasokeuperina, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora isocardioides
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Bindlach marine invertebrates (Triassic of Germany)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.