Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Alternative spelling: Amusium (Propeamussium)
Synonyms: Micramussium Oyama 1951, Paramusium Verrill 1897, Pseudopalliorum Oyama 1944
Parent taxon: Propeamussiidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2010
See also Coan et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Catillopecten, Chlamydella, Cyclopecten, Filamussium, Parvamussium, Similipecten
Subtaxa: Paramusium astoriana Paramusium dalli
Type: Pecten (Propeamussium) ceciliae
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections)
• Miocene of Grenada (3), Italy (1), Japan (2), Morocco (1), United States (2: Oregon)
• Oligocene of Denmark (2), Panama (1), Puerto Rico (3), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (7: Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of France (1), Haiti (1), Panama (1), the Russian Federation (4), United States (12: Alabama, Alaska, California, Louisiana, Oregon)
• Paleocene of Denmark (7), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Japan (1), Poland (2), United States (48: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), China (2), Denmark (1), Germany (4), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Japan (4), Poland (9), Ukraine (1), United States (15: California, Colorado)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (2)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Bulgaria (3), Canada (25: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (5), China (4), Germany (5), Hungary (1), Iran (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Iran (3), Italy (1), Mexico (1)
Total: 208 collections including 219 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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