Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Full reference: D. Mongin and A. F. d. Lapparent. 1968. Étude paléontologique de Lamellibranches limniques récoltés dans le Crétacé inférieur du Niger (Afrique) [Paleontological study of the limnic lamellibranchs recovered in the Lower Cretaceous of Niger (Africa)]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 7e série 10:148-155
Belongs to Unio according to D. Mongin and A. F. d. Lapparent 1968
Sister taxa: Unio (Palaeunio), Unio belliplicatus, Unio bitumen, Unio carteri, Unio franconica, Unio galloprovincialis, Unio hamili, Unio hubbardii, Unio hunteri, Unio imbricatus, Unio johnstoni, Unio kirchbergensis, Unio littoralis, Unio mamillatus, Unio natosini, Unio patapscoensis, Unio penultimus, Unio peregrinus, Unio pictorum, Unio rackianus, Unio regularis, Unio scrobicularioides, Unio sparsa, Unio stricklandii, Unio tumidus, Unio vetustus
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Unio deserticus in the database
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