Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Alternative spellings: Amusium (Eburneopecten), Pecten (Eburneopecten)
Parent taxon: Eburneopectinini according to T. R. Waller 2006
See also Dockery 1982, Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska 1984, Lancaster 1986, Le Renard 1994, Sepkoski 2002, Stilwell 1998 and Ward 1992
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) Eburneopecten calvatus Eburneopecten cerinus Eburneopecten freneixae Eburneopecten scintillatus
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1 collection)
• Miocene of United States (3: Maryland)
• Oligocene of United States (21: Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of New Zealand (3), Somalia (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (126: Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (2: Maryland, Virginia)
• Paleocene of United States (2: Maryland, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Japan (4), New Zealand (5), United States (1: California)
Total: 170 collections including 175 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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