†Elegantinia elegans Dunker 1849 (clam)
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Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Alternative combinations: Lyriodon elegans, Myophoria (Elegantinia) elegans, Myophoria elegans
Belongs to Elegantinia according to E. Friesenbichler et al. 2019
See also Awad 1945 and Gu et al. 1976
Sister taxa: Elegantinia lijiangensis, Elegantinia paullorum, Myophoria (Elegantinia) grahami, Myophoria (Elegantinia) venusta
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (7 collections), China (29), Egypt (1), Germany (3), Poland (1), Romania (1), Thailand (1)
Total: 43 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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