Amusium

<i>Amusium</i>

Amusium

Genus of bivalves

Amusium is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Pectinidae.

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Extant species

Extinct species

Extinct species within this genus include:[2]

  • †Amusium aguaclarensis Hodson, 1927
  • Amusium balloti Bernardi, 1861
  • †Amusium bocasense Olsson, 1922
  • †Amusium cristatum (Bronn, 1827)
  • †Amusium darwinianum d'Orbigny, 1846
  • †Amusium filosum Hauer, 1857
  • †Amusium hulshofi Martin, 1883
  • †Amusium lucens Tate, 1886
  • †Amusium mimyum Woodring, 1982
  • †Amusium mortoni Ravenel, 1844
  • †Amusium orientale Dey, 1961
  • †Amusium papyraceum Gabb, 1873
  • †Amusium paris del Rio, 1992
  • †Amusium sol Brown and Pilsbry, 1913
  • †Amusium toulae Brown and Pilsbry, 1911
  • †Amussium alazanum Cooke, 1928
  • †Amussium destefanii Ugolini, 1903
  • †Amussium lompocensis Arnold, 1907
  • †Amussium subcorneum d'Archaic and Haime, 1854

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Carboniferous period to the Quaternary period (age range: 336.0 to 0.012 million years ago). These fossils have been found all over the world.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    WoRMS
  2. [2]
    Fossilworks


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