Unionites kobyumensis Biakov and Kutygin 2021 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae

Full reference: A. S. Biakov and R. V. Kutygin. 2021. First record of the Genus Unionites Wissmann (Bivalvia) in the Boreal Permian of northeast Russia. Paleontological Journal 55:372-377

Belongs to Unionites according to A. S. Biakov and R. V. Kutygin 2021

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 letticus, Unionites manmuensis, Unionites minimus, Unionites muensteri, Unionites ovalis, Unionites posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites subrectus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora purdoni, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora shastensis, Myacites grandis, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites obtusus, Myacites radiatus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites faba, Myacites baconicus, Myacites depressus

Type specimen: SVKNII 2/02-06.113, a valve. Its type locality is Sample 3i/16-33(803), Kobyume River, which is in a Changhsingian marine siltstone in the Privolninskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Sample 3i/16-33(803), Kobyume River

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