Pseudochama
| Pseudochama Temporal range: Eocene - Recent | |
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| Fossil valve of Pseudochama gryphina from Pliocene of Italy | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Veneroida |
| Family: | Chamidae |
| Genus: | Pseudochama Odhner, 1917
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Pseudochama is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Chamidae.
Fossil records
The genus is known from the Eocene to the Recent periods (age range: from 40.4 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils shells have been found all over the world. [1]
Species
Species within this genus include: [2]
- Pseudochama cristella (Lamarck, 1819)
- Pseudochama exogyra (Conrad, 1837) — Pacific jewelbox
- Pseudochama granti Strong, 1934 — deep jewelbox
- Pseudochama gryphina (Lamarck, 1819) [3]
- Pseudochama inezae Bayer, 1943 — alabaster jewelbox
- Pseudochama radians (Lamarck, 1819) — Atlantic jewelbox (accepted as Pseudochama cristella Lamarck, 1819) [4]
References
- ↑ Fossilworks
- ↑ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 53.
- ↑ WoRMS
- ↑ P. cristella at WoRMS
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