Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Alternative spellings: Amussium (Entolium), Pecten (Entolium)
Synonym: Amerinumopecten Kasum-Zadeh 2003
Full reference: F. B. Meek. 1865. Appendix B. Description of the fossils from the auriferous slates of California. Geology of California. Volume I. Report of Progress and Synopsis of the Field-Work, From 1860 to 1864 477-482
Parent taxon: Entoliidae according to A. Scholz et al. 2008
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Frech 1912, Hayami 1975, Kelly 1984, Meek 1865, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Smith 1927, Vokes 1980, Waagen 1907 and Yamani 1983
Sister taxa: Bupecten, Cingentolium, Entoliinae, Entolioides, Palaeoentoliinae, Pernopecten, Scythentolium, Somapecten, Syncyclonema, Syncyclonematinae
Subtaxa: Amussium (Entolium) aurarium Entolium (Costentolium) Entolium (Cteniopleurium) Entolium (Entolium) Entolium amerinum Entolium callosum Entolium costatum Entolium demissus Entolium discites Entolium equabile Entolium fossatum Entolium irenense Entolium kellneri Entolium kolymaense Entolium lunare Entolium mapuche Entolium meeki Entolium membranaceum Entolium microtis Entolium minor Entolium oebergi Entolium orbiculare Entolium piriformis Entolium qinghaiense Entolium reticulatum Entolium solidum Entolium subdemissum Entolium utukokense Pecten (Entolium) ceruleus Pecten (Entolium) decoratiformis Pecten (Entolium) lavaredanus Pecten (Entolium) pittensis Pecten (Entolium) yukonensis
Type: Entolium demissus
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Papua New Guinea (1 collection)
• Motuan of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (8), Argentina (38), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (6: Alberta, Northwest Territories), China (2), Colombia (4), Denmark (3), France (3), Germany (9), Greenland (7), India (1), Italy (1), Japan (12), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mozambique (11), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (41), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (30), South Africa (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (13), Sweden (1), Tanzania (4), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (32), United States (30: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas)
• Heterian of New Zealand (1)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (3)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (2)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (2), Argentina (62), Bulgaria (11), Canada (99: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (126), China (5), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), Ethiopia (1), France (39), Georgia (1), Germany (34), Greenland (121), Hungary (9), India (11), Iran (4), Italy (1), Japan (25), Kenya (11), Luxembourg (3), Mexico (5), New Zealand (12), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (4), Saudi Arabia (23), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Slovakia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (92), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (6), Tanzania (14), Thailand (4), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (57), United States (12: Alaska, California, Nevada), Vietnam (1), Yemen (1)
• Triassic of Afghanistan (9), Austria (7), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (54), Egypt (1), France (3), Germany (7), Hungary (16), Indonesia (5), Iran (3), Italy (43), Japan (7), Jordan (2), Kazakhstan (3), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (22), Slovakia (4), Spain (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (10: Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah), Vietnam (9)
• Permian of China (15), Hungary (1), Malaysia (1)
Total: 1330 collections including 1410 occurrences
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