Scythentolium scutigerulus Hautmann et al. 2011 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae

Full reference: M. Hautmann, H. Bucher, T. Brühwiler, N. Goudemand, A. Kaim and A. Nützel. 2011. An unusually diverse mollusc fauna from the earliest Triassic of South China and its implications for benthic recovery after the end-Permian biotic crisis. Geobios 44:71-85

Belongs to Scythentolium according to W. J. Foster et al. 2019

See also Hautmann et al. 2015 and Hautmann et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Scythentolium anisicum, Scythentolium kokeni, Scythentolium tirolicum

Type specimen: PIMUZ 28475, a valve (Left valve). Its type locality is Shanggan Sha3, Leye County, which is in a Griesbachian shallow subtidal packstone in China.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (13 collections)

Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence

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