Delectopecten Stewart 1930

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae

Alternative spellings: Chlamys (Delectopecten), Cyclopecten (Delectopecten), Hyalopecten (Delectopecten), Palliolum (Delectopecten)

Full reference: R. B. Stewart. 1930. Gabb's California Cretaceous and Tertiary type lamellibranchs. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Special Publication 3:1-314

Parent taxon: Camptonectinae according to C. J. del Rio et al. 2008

See also Beu and Darragh 2001, Coan et al. 2000, Dijkstra and Kilburn 2001, Durham 1944, Faustman 1964, Jung 1971, Kiel 2006, Marquet 2002, Moore 1984, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer et al. 2004, Stewart 1930, Todd 2001 and Woodring 1938

Sister taxon: Ciclopecten

Subtaxa: Delectopecten alternilineatus Delectopecten crassistriatus Delectopecten harfordus Delectopecten lillisi Delectopecten maddreni Delectopecten musorstomi Delectopecten neuquenensis Delectopecten peckhami Delectopecten pedroanus Delectopecten randolphi Delectopecten terryi Delectopecten vancouverensis Delectopecten vitreus Palliolum (Delectopecten) antillarum

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (7: California collections)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), United States (2: California)

• Miocene of Grenada (2), Japan (4), the Russian Federation (4), United States (16: California, Oregon)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Washington)

• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (11), United States (6: California, Oregon, Washington)

• Eocene of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (9: Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington)

• Paleocene of Argentina (10), Australia (1), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 80 collections including 86 occurrences

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