Neithea
| Neithea Temporal range: Early Jurassic - early Paleocene
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| Fossil of Neithea striatocostata located at the Teylers Museum, Haarlem. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Family: | †Neitheidae |
| Genus: | †Neithea Meek, 1864 |
Neithea is an extinct genus of bivalve molluscs that lived from the Early Jurassic to the early Paleocene, with a worldwide distribution.[1] Neithia sp. are inequivalve. That means that the two valves are not the same shape, the right valve being strongly concave and the left valve being flattened or concave. Sculpture consist of alternating strong and weaker radiating ribs.
Selected species
- Neithea alpina
- Neithea biangulata
- Neithea coquandi
- Neithea hispanica
- Neithea irregularis
- Neithea morrisi
- Neithea sexcostata
- Neithea striatocostata
References
- ^ Neithea in the Paleobiology Database
Further reading
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 100)
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Categories:
- Pectinida
- Prehistoric bivalve genera
- Jurassic bivalves
- Cretaceous bivalves
- Paleogene bivalves
- Prehistoric animals of Africa
- Extinct animals of Antarctica
- Prehistoric animals of Asia
- Prehistoric invertebrates of Oceania
- Prehistoric animals of Europe
- Prehistoric bivalves of North America
- Cretaceous animals of South America
- Early Jurassic genus first appearances
- Fossil taxa described in 1864
- Prehistoric bivalve stubs