Bivalvia - Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
Full reference: A. Bittner. 1891. Triaspetrefakten von Balia in Kleinasien. Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich-Königlichen, Geologischen Reichsanstalt 41:97-116
Belongs to Pecten (Leptochondria) according to A. Bittner 1891
See also Ros-Franch et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Leptochondria aeolicus, Leptochondria albertii, Leptochondria asiatica, Leptochondria bittneri, Leptochondria curtocardinalis, Leptochondria dagestanica, Leptochondria fenghaiensis, Leptochondria hataii, Leptochondria illyrica, Leptochondria intermedia, Leptochondria jiaheensis, Leptochondria lichuanensis, Leptochondria minima, Leptochondria nuetzeli, Leptochondria occidanea, Leptochondria pervulgata, Leptochondria prosoclinus, Leptochondria pyriformis, Leptochondria separata, Leptochondria shoshonensis, Leptochondria simensis, Leptochondria viezzenensis, Leptochondria virgalensis, Leptochondria xijinwulanensis, Leptochondria zhenjiangensis, Orientopecten gujoensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Balia (Halobia beds), which is in a Triassic marine shale in Turkey
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Balia (Halobia beds)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.