Bivalvia - Pectinida - Monotidae
Full reference: E. Kittl. 1912. Materialen zu einer Monographie der Halobiidae und Monotidae der Trias [Monograph on the Halobiidae and Monotidae of the Triassic]. Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(4):1-229
Belongs to Monotis according to E. Kittl 1912
See also Grant-Mackie 1978, Silberling et al. 1997 and Westermann and Seyed-Emami 1981
Sister taxa: Monotis (Entomonotis), Monotis (Eomonotis), Monotis (Inflatomonotis), Monotis (Maorimonotis), Monotis (Monotis), Monotis (Pacimonotis), Monotis dalmatina, Monotis inaequivalvis, Monotis lineata, Monotis montini, Monotis mukaihatensis, Monotis nelgekhensis, Monotis pinensis, Monotis pygmaea, Monotis rudis, Monotis salinaria, Monotis scutiformis, Monotis stoppanii, Monotis styriaca
Type specimen: Specimen No. 1902 VII, Vienna Natural History Museum. Its type locality is Rossmoos, grauem Marmor, which is in a Sevatian carbonate limestone in the Halstatt Formation of Austria.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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