Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Alternative spelling: Myophoria (Elegantinia)
Synonym: Lyriomyophoria Kobayashi 1954 [objective synonym]
Full reference: L. Waagen. 1907. Die Lamellibranchiaten der Pachycardientuffe der Seiser Alm nebst vergleichend paläontologischen und phylogenetischen Studien. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 18(2):1-180
Parent taxon: Myophoriidae according to Hautmann 2001
See also Boyd and Newell 1999, Gu et al. 1976, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980 and Waagen 1907
Sister taxa: Acanomyphoria, Amlerella, Atalantia, Baidiostraca, Caledogonia, Costatoria, Dolabra, Erugonia, Gruenewaldia, Guizhoumyophoria, Hefteria, Heminajas, Myophoria, Neoschizodus, Paraschizodus, Rhenania, Rhenanomya, Toechomya, Trionychodia, Yangella, Cytherodon
Subtaxa: Elegantinia elegans Elegantinia lijiangensis Elegantinia paullorum Myophoria (Elegantinia) grahami Myophoria (Elegantinia) venusta
Type: Myophoria (Elegantinia) elegans
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (7 collections), Austria (3), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (36), Egypt (1), Germany (7), Hungary (3), Italy (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (1), Romania (1), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (4), United States (8: Nevada, Utah)
Total: 79 collections including 121 occurrences
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