Anoplophora torreana Frech 1912 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae

Full reference: F. Frech. 1912. Die Leitfossilien der Werfener Schichten und Nachträge zur Fauna des Muschelkalkes der Cassianer und Raibler Schichten sowie des Rhaet und des Dachsteindolomites (Hauptdolomit) [The main fossils of the Werfen Formation]. Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(6):1-95

Belongs to Anoplophora according to F. Frech 1912

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bezerédi Garden, Veszprém, which is in a Carnian marine marl in Hungary

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bezerédi Garden, Veszprém

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