Pterotrigonia: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Trigoniida
Family
Pterotrigoniidae
Genus
Pterotrigonia
Species
Scientific Name
Pterotrigonia

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Pterotrigonia

Pterotrigonia is an extinct genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Megatrigoniidae. This genus is known in the fossil record from the Jurassic period Tithonian age to the Cretaceous period Maastrichtian age. Species in this genus were facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeders. The type species of the genus is Pterotrigonia cristata.

Pterotrigonia thoracica was selected as the state fossil of Tennessee in 1998.

Scabrotrigonia is a subgenus of Pterotrigonia.

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