Neithea

Neithea Temporal range: Early Jurassic - early Paleocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pectinoida
Suborder:	Pectinina
Superfamily:	Pectinoidea
Family:	Oxytomidae
Genus:	Neithea Meek, 1864

Neithea is an extinct genus of bivalve mollusk that lived from the Early Jurassic to the early Paleocene with a worldwide distribution. Neithia sp. have inequivalve. That means, both valve is nonequivalent, the right valve is strongly concave and the left is flattened or concave. Sculpturing consist of alternating strong and weaker radiating ribs. Based on Fossil Invertebrates book, which written by Lehmann & Hillmer, Neithea occurred in Cretaceous

Sources

• Neithea in the Paleobiology Database
• Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 100)

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