Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Alternative combination: Anodontophora (Myacites) baconicus
Full reference: A. Bittner. 1901. Lamellibranchiaten aus der Trias des Bakonyer Waldes [Bivalves from the Triassic of the Bakony Forest]. Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(3):1-107
Belongs to Myacites according to A. Bittner 1901
See also Ogilvie Gordon 1927
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 omolonica, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora purdoni, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora shastensis, Myacites grandis, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites obtusus, Myacites radiatus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites faba, Myacites depressus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Vörösberény, Hungary, which is in a Pelsonian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Felsõörs Formation of Hungary
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Hungary (1 collection), Italy (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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