Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Full reference: A. Bittner. 1895. Revision der Lamellibranchiaten von St. Cassian. Abhandlungen der kaiserlich-koniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 18(1):1-236
Belongs to Opis according to A. Bittner 1895
Sister taxa: Opis (Coelopis), Opis (Hesperopis), Opis (Pachyopis), Opis (Protopis), Opis (Trigonopis), Opis affinis, Opis barnensis, Opis bifrons, Opis bigoti, Opis californica, Opis cardissoides, Opis cloacina, Opis corallina, Opis gortanii, Opis hoeninghausii, Opis ladina, Opis neocomiensis, Opis shastalis, Opis virginalis
Type specimen: Its type locality is St. Cassian (K.K. Geol Reichsanstalt coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at St. Cassian (K.K. Geol Reichsanstalt coll)
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