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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Arács railway cutting, which is in a Triassic marine horizon in Hungary

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Arács railway cutting

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