Myophoria Bronn 1834 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae

Synonym: Trigonellites von Schlotheim 1820

Parent taxon: Myophoriidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Goldfuss 1863, Isberg 1934, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acanomyphoria, Amlerella, Atalantia, Baidiostraca, Caledogonia, Costatoria, Dolabra, Elegantinia, Erugonia, Gruenewaldia, Guizhoumyophoria, Hefteria, Heminajas, Neoschizodus, Paraschizodus, Rhenania, Rhenanomya, Toechomya, Trionychodia, Yangella, Cytherodon

Subtaxa: Myophoria (Rhenania) Myophoria (Tropiphora) Myophoria acuticostata Myophoria adornata Myophoria ambilineata Myophoria beringiana Myophoria bittneri Myophoria blainvillei Myophoria blakei Myophoria brockensis Myophoria cairnesi Myophoria chenopus Myophoria costulata Myophoria coxi Myophoria ebbae Myophoria elliptica Myophoria germanica Myophoria goldfussi Myophoria harpa Myophoria heslingtonensis Myophoria humboldtensis Myophoria incurvata Myophoria inflata Myophoria intermedia Myophoria kefersteini Myophoria kokeni Myophoria kuuoruensis Myophoria liasica Myophoria maxima Myophoria mexicana Myophoria nifukokoensis Myophoria ornata Myophoria picta Myophoria proharpa Myophoria reziae Myophoria solitaria Myophoria staggi Myophoria stenonis Myophoria subtrigonata Myophoria subvestita Myophoria timorensis Myophoria transversa Myophoria vestita Myophoria volzi Myophoria vulgaris Myophoria zeballos Trigonellites vulgaris

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Type: Trigonellites vulgaris

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Canada (6: British Columbia collections), Indonesia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)

• Triassic of Afghanistan (14), Algeria (1), Austria (13), Bosnia and Herzegovina (4), Canada (5: British Columbia), China (7), Colombia (1), Croatia (3), Egypt (1), France (12), Germany (23), Hungary (11), Indonesia (20), Iraq (1), Israel (2), Italy (51), Japan (2), Jordan (3), Kazakhstan (1), Malaysia (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (2), Papua New Guinea (4), Peru (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (3), Singapore (1), Slovenia (17), Spain (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), Tunisia (2), Turkey (1), the United Arab Emirates (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (40: Alaska, California, Nevada, Utah, nevada), Vietnam (1)

• Permian of Italy (1), Pakistan (1)

• Devonian of Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Ordovician of Sweden (1)

Total: 280 collections including 332 occurrences

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