Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Alternative combination: Anodontophora subrecta
Full reference: A. Bittner. 1901. Lamellibranchiaten aus der Trias des Bakonyer Waldes [Bivalves from the Triassic of the Bakony Forest]. Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(3):1-107
Belongs to Unionites according to W. J. Foster et al. 2017
See also Bittner 1901 and Szente and Vörös 2003
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 kobyumensis, Unionites letticus, Unionites manmuensis, Unionites minimus, Unionites muensteri, Unionites ovalis, Unionites posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora edmondiiformis, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora omolonica, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora torreana, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites baconicus, Myacites obtusus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites radiatus, Myacites faba, Myacites depressus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites grandis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Vámos-Katrabocza, which is in a Ladinian carbonate limestone in Hungary
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Greenland (1 collection), Hungary (6), the Russian Federation (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4)
Total: 16 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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