Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Full reference: K. Nakazawa. 2007. Minute bivalve fossils from the Permian Akasaka Limestone, Central Japan, (Appendix) Description of a new species of Pernopecten. Earth Science (Chikyu Kagaku) 61:187-201
Belongs to Pernopecten according to K. Nakazawa 2007
Sister taxa: Pernopecten attenuatus, Pernopecten aviculatus, Pernopecten carboniferus, Pernopecten clypeatus, Pernopecten concentricum, Pernopecten guangdongensis, Pernopecten guizhouensis, Pernopecten huayingshanensis, Pernopecten latangulatus, Pernopecten malaysia, Pernopecten obliquus, Pernopecten ohioensis, Pernopecten prosseri, Pernopecten salarius, Pernopecten sichuanensis, Pernopecten sowerbyi, Pernopecten subglobusus, Pernopecten subpiriformis, Pernopecten symmetricus, Pernopecten tirolense, Pernopecten vadegensis, Pernopecten yini, Pernopecten zhonglingensis, Pernopecten zhutangensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Ichihashi Quarry, Kinshozan, Akasaka, which is in a Capitanian shallow subtidal packstone in the Akasaka Formation of Japan
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Ichihashi Quarry, Kinshozan, Akasaka
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