Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Full reference: A. Stoppani. 1865. Géologie et paléontologie des couches à Avicula contorta en Lombardie. Paleontologie Lombarde 3:1-267
Belongs to Opis according to A. Stoppani 1865
Sister taxa: Opis (Coelopis), Opis (Hesperopis), Opis (Pachyopis), Opis (Protopis), Opis (Trigonopis), Opis affinis, Opis bifrons, Opis bigoti, Opis californica, Opis cardissoides, Opis cloacina, Opis corallina, Opis gortanii, Opis hoeninghausii, Opis ladina, Opis laubei, Opis neocomiensis, Opis shastalis, Opis virginalis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Barni, Val Assina, Lombardy, which is in a Rhaetian marine horizon in Italy
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Italy (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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