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Pterotrigonia

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Kingdom
  
Family
  
Phylum
  
Order
  
Superfamily
  
Megatrigonioidea

Subfamily
  
Pterotrigoniinae

Rank
  
Genus

Subclass
  
Palaeoheterodonta

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Similar
  
Myophorella, Trigonia, Trigoniidae, False ark shell, Trigonioidea

Pterorigonia is an extinct genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Megatrigoniidae. This genus is known in the fossil record from the Jurassic period Tithonian age to the Cretaceous period Maastrichtian age. Species in this genus were facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeders. The type species of the genus is Pterotrigonia cristata.

References

Pterotrigonia Wikipedia


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