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, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites faba, Myacites depressus, Myacites obtusus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites grandis, Myacites baconicus, Myacites radiatus, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora purdoni, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora isocardioides
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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