Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Full reference: A. Winchell. 1865. Descriptions of new species of fossils from the Marshall group of Michigan, and its supposed equivalent in other states; with notes on some fossils of the same age previously described. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1865:109-133
Parent taxon: Entoliidae according to M. Hautmann 2004
See also Amler 1992, Newell and Boyd 1995, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Bupecten, Cingentolium, Entoliinae, Entolioides, Entolium, Palaeoentoliinae, Scythentolium, Somapecten, Syncyclonema, Syncyclonematinae
Subtaxa: Pernopecten attenuatus Pernopecten aviculatus Pernopecten carboniferus Pernopecten clypeatus Pernopecten concentricum Pernopecten guangdongensis Pernopecten guizhouensis Pernopecten huayingshanensis Pernopecten latangulatus Pernopecten malaysia Pernopecten obliquus Pernopecten ohioensis Pernopecten prosseri Pernopecten salarius Pernopecten sichuanensis Pernopecten sowerbyi Pernopecten subglobusus Pernopecten subpiriformis Pernopecten symmetricus Pernopecten terukoae Pernopecten tirolense Pernopecten vadegensis Pernopecten yini Pernopecten zhonglingensis Pernopecten zhutangensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Italy (10 collections), United States (7: Utah)
• Permian to Triassic of China (1)
• Permian of China (53), Hungary (8), Italy (3), Japan (4), Malaysia (2), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (28: Alaska, New Mexico, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), China (4), Germany (2), Ireland (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (16), United States (25: Alaska, California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Germany (2)
Total: 174 collections including 198 occurrences
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