†Patriciapecten iona Sturm 2011 (scallop)
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Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Full reference: C. F. Sturm. 2011. Description of a New Genus and Species of Scallop (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from the Upper Cenozoic of North Carolina. Annals of Carnegie Museum 80(1):43-48
Belongs to Patriciapecten according to C. F. Sturm 2011
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is Lee Creek Mine, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Pungo River Formation of North Carolina
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Lee Creek Mine, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan
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