Amusium

Genus of bivalves

Amusium

Temporal range: Carboniferous \- recent

PreꞒ

Fossil shells of Amusium cristatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Bivalvia
Order:  | Pectinida
Family:  | Pectinidae
Genus:  | Amusium
Röding, 1798
Synonyms

* Pecten (Pleuronectia)  Swainson, 1840
* Pleuronectes Bronn, 1832
* Pleuronectia Swainson, 1840

Amusium is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Pectinidae.

## Extant species[edit]

* Amusium pleuronectes Linnaeus, 1758[1]

## Extinct species[edit]

Extinct species within this genus include:[2]

* †Amusium aguaclarensis Hodson, 1927
* Amusium balloti Bernardi, 1861
* †Amusium bocasense Olsson, 1922
* †Amusium cristatum (Bronn, 1827)
* †Amusium darwinianum d'Orbigny, 1846
* †Amusium filosum Hauer, 1857
* †Amusium hulshofi Martin, 1883
* †Amusium lucens Tate, 1886
* †Amusium mimyum Woodring, 1982
* †Amusium mortoni Ravenel, 1844
* †Amusium orientale Dey, 1961
* †Amusium papyraceum Gabb, 1873
* †Amusium paris del Rio, 1992
* †Amusium sol Brown and Pilsbry, 1913
* †Amusium toulae Brown and Pilsbry, 1911
* †Amussium alazanum Cooke, 1928
* †Amussium destefanii Ugolini, 1903
* †Amussium lompocensis Arnold, 1907
* †Amussium subcorneum d'Archaic and Haime, 1854

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Carboniferous period to the Quaternary period (age range: 336.0 to 0.012 million years ago). These fossils have been found all over the world.[2]

## References[edit]

1. ^ WoRMS
2. ^ a b Fossilworks

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q18588715
* AFD: Amusium
* BOLD: 81458
* CoL: 7NNY8
* Fossilworks: 59066
* GBIF: 2285966
* iNaturalist: 246289
* IRMNG: 1310288
* ITIS: 79730
* NCBI: 106315
* WoRMS: 205333

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