Clavagella

Clavagella
Temporal range: 72.1–0 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pholadomyoida
Family: Clavagellidae
Genus: Clavagella
Blainville 1817[1]
Subgenera and species
subgenera
  • Clavagella (Bryopa) (Gray 1847)
  • Clavagella (Clavagella) Blainville 1817
  • Clavagella (Dacosta) Gray 1858
species
  • †Clavagella elegans Müller, 1859
  • Clavagella liratum (Tate, 1887)
  • Clavagella melitensis
  • Clavagella primigenia Deshayes 1857
Synonyms

Bacilia Gray, 1858

Clavagella is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Clavagellidae.

Fossil species

The genus is also represented in the fossil record.

C. elegans is from the Campanian-Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Tinrhert in the Sahara province of Algeria.[2] The type specimen (number MNHN.F.R53841) is kept at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. H de Blainville AG Desmarest (ed.) 9, 151, 1817
  2. ↑ Collignon (M.), 1971 - Gastéropodes et Lamellibranches du Sahara. Annales de Paléontologie, t. 57, vol. 2, p. 145-202
  3. ↑ C. elegans at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

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