Cassiavellia
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Pteriida |
Family: | †Bakevelliidae |
Genus: | †Cassiavellia Tëmkin and Pojeta, Jr, 2010 |
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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
- ^ 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.