Amusium
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Family: | Pectinidae |
| Genus: | Amusium Röding, 1798 |
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Amusium is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Pectinidae.
Extant species
[edit]Extinct species
[edit]Extinct species within this genus include:[2]
- †Amusium aguaclarensis Hodson, 1927
- Amusium balloti Bernardi, 1861
- †Amusium bocasense Olsson, 1922
- †Amusium cristatum (Bronn, 1827)
- †Amusium darwinianum d'Orbigny, 1846
- †Amusium filosum Hauer, 1857
- †Amusium hulshofi Martin, 1883
- †Amusium lucens Tate, 1886
- †Amusium mimyum Woodring, 1982
- †Amusium mortoni Ravenel, 1844
- †Amusium orientale Dey, 1961
- †Amusium papyraceum Gabb, 1873
- †Amusium paris del Rio, 1992
- †Amusium sol Brown and Pilsbry, 1913
- †Amusium toulae Brown and Pilsbry, 1911
- †Amussium alazanum Cooke, 1928
- †Amussium destefanii Ugolini, 1903
- †Amussium lompocensis Arnold, 1907
- †Amussium subcorneum d'Archaic and Haime, 1854
This genus is known in the fossil record from the Carboniferous period to the Quaternary period (age range: 336.0 to 0.012 million years ago). These fossils have been found all over the world.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ WoRMS
- ^ a b Fossilworks
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