Aviculopecten is an extinct genus of bivalve mollusc that lived from the Early Devonian to the Late Triassic in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.[1]
| Aviculopecten Temporal range:
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| A. subcardiformis from the Logan Formation (Lower Carboniferous) of Wooster, Ohio (external mold) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Family: | †Aviculopectinidae |
| Genus: | †Aviculopecten M'Coy, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| Aviculopecten planoradiatus | |
| Species | |
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A fine fossil of the species A. subcardiformis has been found in the 345 million year old Logan Formation of Wooster, Ohio. It is an external mould and the impression left by the valve is so clear that the fine ridges and even the growth lines are visible.[2]
Species
editThe following species of Aviculopecten have been described:[1]
- A. altus
- A. appalachianus
- A. arctisulcatus
- A. artiensis
- A. asiaticus
- A. ballingerana
- A. basilicus
- A. batesvillensis
- A. beipeiensis
- A. bellatulus
- A. bertrandi
- A. bouei
- A. caodigouensis
- A. columbianus
- A. coryeanus
- A. coxanus
- A. crebristriatus
- A. crenistriatus
- A. cunctatus
- A. cypticostatus
- A. densistriatus
- A. derajatensis
- A. diemenensis
- A. draschei
- A. eaglensis
- A. expositus
- A. flabellum
- A. frederixi
- A. germanus
- A. giganteus
- A. girtyi
- A. gradicosta
- A. gryphus
- A. guangxiensis
- A. halensis
- A. hardmani
- A. hataii
- A. hayasakai
- A. hemisphaerus
- A. idahoensis
- A. imbricatus
- A. inspeciosus
- A. jabiensis
- A. jennyi
- A. jiaozishanensis
- A. kaibabensis
- A. katwahiensis
- A. keoughensis
- A. khinganensis
- A. kunlunensis
- A. langdaiensis
- A. latrobensis
- A. lobanovae
- A. lopingensis
- A. malayensis
- A. mayesensis
- A. mazonensis
- A. mccoyi
- A. media
- A. minutum
- A. misrikhanensis
- A. moorei
- A. morahensis
- A. morrowensis
- A. multilineatus
- A. multiradiatus
- A. nikolaewi
- A. nitidus
- A. nodocosta
- A. occidentalis
- A. onukii
- A. orientalis
- A. ozarkensis
- A. panxianensis
- A. paradoxus
- A. pealei
- A. peculiaris
- A. pitkinensis
- A. planoradiatus
- A. ponderosus
- A. praecox
- A. prototextorius
- A. pseudoctenostreon
- A. pseudoradiatus
- A. punjabensis
- A. qinghaiensis
- A. regularis
- A. rossiensis
- A. ruklensis
- A. scheremetus
- A. serdobowae
- A. shiroshitai
- A. sicanus
- A. simplicus
- A. spinocostatus
- A. squamiger
- A. squamula
- A. squamula
- A. subparadoxus
- A. subregularis
- A. subtristriatus
- A. sulaensis
- A. sumnerensis
- A. symmetricus
- A. terminalis
- A. tompo
- A. tristriatus
- A. uralicus
- A. verbeeki
- A. waageni
- A. wilczekiformis
- A. winchelli
- A. wynnei
- A. xiaoyuanchongensis
- A. yunnanensis
- A. zhongyingensis
References
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- ^ a b Aviculopecten at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A sweet local scallop (Lower Carboniferous of Wooster) Wooster geologists. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
Further reading
edit- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 98)
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