Cassiavellia

Cassiavellia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pteriida
Family: †Bakevelliidae
Genus: †Cassiavellia
Tëmkin and Pojeta Jr, 2010
Species
  • Cassiavellia galtarae †
  • Cassiavellia nadkevnae †

Cassiavellia is an extinct genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subclass Pteriomorphia. This genus existed in what is now Texas, during the upper Permian period.[1] The type species is Cassiavellia galtarae, and the genus also contains the species C. nadkevnae.

References

  1. ^ Ilya Tëmkin and John Pojeta Jr. (2010). "Cassiavellia galtarae, New Species, New Genus: A New Permian Bivalve and its Significance for Pterioidean Systematics". Journal of Paleontology. 84 (6): 1152–1176. doi:10.1666/10-022.1. S2CID 85027152.


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