Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Full reference: C. T. Trechmann. 1917. The Trias of New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 73(3):165-246
Belongs to Anodontophora according to C. T. Trechmann 1917
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, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora purdoni, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora liasokeuperina, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora recta, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites faba, Myacites radiatus, Myacites grandis, Myacites depressus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites musculoides, Myacites baconicus, Myacites obtusus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Otamita Stream (Bed "C"), which is in a Carnian marine shale in New Zealand
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Otamita Stream (Bed "C")
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