Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Alternative combination: Trigonia klamathonia
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378
Belongs to Pterotrigonia according to J. W. Haggart et al. 2005
See also Anderson 1958 and Jones 1960
Sister taxa: Pterotrigonia (Acanthotrigonia), Pterotrigonia (Pterotrigonia), Pterotrigonia (Ptilotrigonia), Pterotrigonia (Rinetrigonia), Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia), Pterotrigonia borgesi, Pterotrigonia cristata, Pterotrigonia ethra, Pterotrigonia evansana, Pterotrigonia oregana, Pterotrigonia vaelsiensis, Pisotrigonia salebrosa, Rinetrigonia ventricosa
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (6: British Columbia collections), United States (44: California)
Total: 50 collections each including a single occurrence
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