Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Alternative combination: Entolium attenuatum
Full reference: C. L. Herrick. 1887. A sketch of the geological history of Licking County (Ohio), accompanying an illustrated catalogue of Carboniferous fossils from Flint Ridge, Ohio. Bulletin of the Denison University Scientific Laboratories 2:5-70
Belongs to Pernopecten according to N. D. Newell 1938
See also Herrick 1887 and Hoare 1961
Sister taxa: 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:
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Illinois, Missouri collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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