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(Redirected from Clavagella elegans) Genus of bivalves

Clavagella
Temporal range: 72.1–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Family: Clavagellidae
Genus: Clavagella
Blainville 1817
Species

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Synonyms

Bacilia Gray, 1858

Clavagella is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Clavagellidae.

Taxonomy

Subgenera:

Species:

Fossil species

The genus is also represented in the fossil record.

Clavagella elegans is from the Campanian-Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Tinrhert in the Sahara province of Algeria. The type specimen (number MNHN.F.R53841) is kept at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

References

  1. Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. H de Blainville AG Desmarest (ed.) 9, 151, 1817
  2. Collignon (M.), 1971 - Gastéropodes et Lamellibranches du Sahara. Annales de Paléontologie, t. 57, vol. 2, p. 145-202
  3. C. elegans at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

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Taxon identifiers
Clavagella


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