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