Anthraconauta Pruvost 1930 (clam)

Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae

Full reference: P. Pruvost. 1930. La faune continentale du terrain houiller de la Belgique. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 44:105-282

Parent taxon: Anthraconautidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2010

See also Cox et al. 1969 and Pruvost 1930

Sister taxa: Arctomyalina, Aviculomyalina, Boiomytilus, Dorcadungula, Elversella, Hemimenion, Liebea, Myalina, Naiadites, Novaculapermia, Pachymytilus, Posidoniella, Promyalina, Pseudomyalina, Pseudopachymytilus, Selenimyalina, Selenimyalininae, Septimyalina

Subtaxa: Anthraconauta (Prokopievskia)

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of China (2 collections)

• Chesterian of United States (3: West Virginia)

• Carboniferous of Belgium (1)

Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences

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