Pachypteria obliqua Fang 1987 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae

Full reference: Z.J. Fang. 1987. Bivalves from the upper part of the Permian in southern Hunan, China. Collection of Postgraduate Theses of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica 1987(1):349-411

Belongs to Pachypteria according to Z.J. Fang 1987

Sister taxa: Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis), Pseudomonotis (Trematiconcha), Pseudomonotis aueri, Pseudomonotis aurisculpta, Pseudomonotis austriaca, Pseudomonotis beedei, Pseudomonotis boreas, Pseudomonotis caucasica, Pseudomonotis circularis, Pseudomonotis dubiosa, Pseudomonotis equistriata, Pseudomonotis excentrostriata, Pseudomonotis fredoniensis, Pseudomonotis furcoplicatus, Pseudomonotis gigantea, Pseudomonotis hawni, Pseudomonotis immanis, Pseudomonotis kumpani, Pseudomonotis leiyangensis, Pseudomonotis leptopleura, Pseudomonotis loczyi, Pseudomonotis millhorni, Pseudomonotis mongoliensis, Pseudomonotis nigricans, Pseudomonotis ochotica, Pseudomonotis praecursor, Pseudomonotis qinglongensis, Pseudomonotis robusta, Pseudomonotis sayrei, Pseudomonotis spinosa, Pseudomonotis subangulata, Pseudomonotis sublaevis, Pseudomonotis substriata, Pseudomonotis tibeticus, Pseudomonotis toulai, Pachypteria nobilissima, Pseudomonotis (Aviculomonotis) waageni, Pseudomonotis (Aviculomonotis) matthewi, Pseudomonotis (Aviculomonotis) indica, Aviculomonotis kazanensis

Type specimen: NIGP 71695, a valve (Right valve). Its type locality is Xiaoyuanchong (Douling Fm, Upper Mb), Yuanjia, Jiahe, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine mudstone in the Douling Formation of China.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Xiaoyuanchong (Douling Fm, Upper Mb), Yuanjia, Jiahe

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