Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae

Full reference: C. F. Sturm. 2011. Description of a New Genus and Species of Scallop (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from the Upper Cenozoic of North Carolina. Annals of Carnegie Museum 80(1):43-48

Parent taxon: Chlamydinae according to C. F. Sturm 2011

Sister taxa: Aequipecten, Crassadoma, Cryptopecten, Hilberia, Psychrochlamys, Semipallium, Subulatachlamys, Taimyronectes, Janopecten

Subtaxa: Patriciapecten iona

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Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Lee Creek Mine, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (Miocene of North Carolina)

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