Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae
Full reference: F. B. Meek. 1874. Notes on some of the fossils figured in the recently issued fifth volume of the Illinois State Geological Report. American Journal of Science Series 3 7:189-488
Belongs to Solenomya (Janeia) according to Meek 1874
See also Bailey 2021, Beede 1900, Beede and Rogers 1899, Hoare 1961 and Kues et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Solemya (Austrosolemya), Solemya (Petrasma), Solemya (Pseudacharax), Solemya (Solemya), Solemya (Solemyarina), Solemya (Zesolemya), Solemya abbreviata, Solemya alabamensis, Solemya funingensis, Solemya insignifica, Solemya lamarckiana, Solemya lomitensis, Solemya petricoloides, Solemya subplicata, Solemya sulcifera, Solemya togata, Solenomya semseyana, Solenomya sharonensis, Solenomya translineata, Solemya (Janeia) minuta, Solemya (Janeia) tibetica, Janeia elliptica
Type specimen: USNM 36315, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal deposit feeder-chemosymbiotic
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Solenomya (Janeia) trapezoides in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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