Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Belongs to Myacites according to Münster 1863
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 faba, Myacites baconicus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites depressus, Myacites radiatus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites obtusus, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora omolonica, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora liasokeuperina
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Laineck marine invertebrates (Triassic of Germany)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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