Wilkingia
Appearance
Wilkingia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Family: | †Sanguinolitidae |
Genus: | †Wilkingia Wilson, 1959 |
Wilkingia is an extinct genus of fossil bivalve molluscs that lived from the Early Carboniferous (Visean) to the Late Permian (Changhsingian) in Asia, Europe, North and South America (Río del Peñón Formation of Argentina, Piauí Formation of Brazil and Cerro El Arbol Formation of Chile).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Wilkingia at Fossilworks.org
Further reading
[edit]- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 113)
Categories:
- Prehistoric bivalve genera
- Carboniferous bivalves
- Carboniferous Chile
- Permian bivalves
- Paleozoic animals of Asia
- Paleozoic animals of Europe
- Paleozoic animals of North America
- Carboniferous animals of South America
- Carboniferous Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Carboniferous Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Permian animals of South America
- Permian Argentina
- Permian Chile
- Fossils of Chile
- Fossil taxa described in 1959
- Prehistoric bivalve stubs
- Carboniferous animal stubs