Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae

Full reference: A. Beu and M. Taviani. 2013. Early Miocene Mollusca from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (ANDRILL 2A drill core), with a review of Antarctic Oligocene and Neogene Pectinidae (Bivalvia). Palaeontology 56(6):1-44

Parent taxon: Chlamydini according to A. Beu and M. Taviani 2013

Sister taxa: Abrachlamys, Austrochlamys, Austrohinnites, Dichotochlamys, Equichlamys, Laevichlamys, Notochlamys, Ruthipecten, Serripecten, Talochlamys, Veprichlamys, Zygochlamys

Subtaxa: Leoclunipecten gazdzickii Leoclunipecten mawsoni

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Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at West of Cat's Ears (Miocene to Miocene of French Southern Territories)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.