Bivalvia - Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. Etheripecten, a new aviculopectinid genus from the Permian. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6:193-196
Parent taxon: Etheripectininae according to J. G. Begg and H.R. Ballard 1991
See also Anelli et al. 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Etheripectinini, Fletcheripecten, Girtypecten, Neptunopecten
Subtaxa: Etheripecten alatus Etheripecten brevauriculatus Etheripecten chandleri Etheripecten dawsonensis Etheripecten escalatus Etheripecten fasciculicostatus Etheripecten haydeni Etheripecten hiemalis Etheripecten latus Etheripecten leniusculus Etheripecten petulantus Etheripecten plicatus Etheripecten sichuanensis Etheripecten striatura Etheripecten stuflesseri Etheripecten subquinquelineatus Etheripecten tenuicollis Etheripecten tianjungensis Etheripecten trichotomus Etheripecten wilczeki
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of India (3 collections)
• Permian to Triassic of India (4)
• Permian of Australia (108), Canada (5: Yukon), China (62), Greece (1), India (5), Italy (1), Japan (2), Mongolia (2), Nepal (18), New Zealand (15), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (7), Thailand (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (3), Brazil (5), India (1), United States (10: California)
Total: 254 collections including 285 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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