Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Parent taxon: Decatopectinini according to H. H. Dijkstra and R. N. Kilburn 2001
See also Lamprell and Whitehead 1992 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anguipecten, Antillipecten, Glorichlamys, Juxtamusium
Subtaxa: Gloripallium crassivenium Gloripallium pallium Gloripallium rikinnensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Japan (1), Kenya (9), Tonga (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Japan (2)
• Miocene of Fiji (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (4), the Russian Federation (1), Somalia (4), Vanuatu (1)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 30 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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