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