Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Full reference: N. D. Newell and D.W. Boyd. 1970. Oyster-like Permian Bivalvia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 143(4):221-281
Parent taxon: Pseudomonotinae according to J. B. Waterhouse 2001
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Newell and Boyd 1995, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Marinopecten
Subtaxa: Pegmavalvula delicata Pegmavalvula gloveri Pegmavalvula triassica
Type: Pegmavalvula gloveri
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (3: Nevada, Utah collections)
• Permian of China (1), Greece (1), United States (20: Texas), Venezuela (3)
Total: 28 collections including 31 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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