Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae

Full reference: F. S. MacNeil. 1967. Cenozoic Pectinids of Alaska, Iceland, and Other Northern Regions. Geological survey professional paper

Belongs to Vertipecten according to W. O. Addicott 1974

See also MacNeil 1967

Sister taxa: Vertipecten alexclarki, Vertipecten bowersi, Vertipecten fucanus, Vertipecten kernensis, Vertipecten perrini, Vertipecten popofensis, Vertipecten porterensis, Vertipecten yneziana

Type specimen: USNM 645031, a valve (incomplete left valve)

Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Jerk Triangulation Station, Port Moller quad. (Oligocene of Alaska)

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