Etheripecten Waterhouse 1963 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Heteropectinidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1963. Etheripecten, a new aviculopectinid genus from the Permian. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6:193-196

Parent taxon: Etheripectininae according to J. G. Begg and H.R. Ballard 1991

See also Anelli et al. 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Etheripectinini, Fletcheripecten, Girtypecten, Neptunopecten

Subtaxa: Etheripecten alatus Etheripecten brevauriculatus Etheripecten chandleri Etheripecten dawsonensis Etheripecten escalatus Etheripecten fasciculicostatus Etheripecten haydeni Etheripecten hiemalis Etheripecten latus Etheripecten leniusculus Etheripecten mutabilis Etheripecten petulantus Etheripecten plicatus Etheripecten sichuanensis Etheripecten striatura Etheripecten stuflesseri Etheripecten subquinquelineatus Etheripecten tenuicollis Etheripecten tianjungensis Etheripecten trichotomus Etheripecten wilczeki

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of India (3 collections)

• Permian to Triassic of India (4)

• Permian of Australia (108), Canada (5: Yukon), China (62), Greece (1), India (5), Italy (1), Japan (2), Mongolia (3), Nepal (18), New Zealand (15), the Russian Federation (11), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (13), Thailand (1)

• Chesterian of United States (1: California)

• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (2)

• Carboniferous of Argentina (3), Brazil (5), India (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (9: California)

Total: 274 collections including 308 occurrences

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