Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Alternative combinations: Axinus elongatus, Pullastra elongata
Belongs to Anodontophora according to E. Jaworski 1922
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, Myacites grandis, Myacites musculoides, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites faba, Myacites obtusus, Myacites baconicus, Myacites radiatus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites depressus, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora liasokeuperina
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Huairas, Huánuco (Triassic of Peru)
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