Palliolum Explained

Palliolum is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Eocene to the Quaternary (age range: 37.2 to 0.012 million years ago).^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Lissochlamys include:^[2]

• Palliolum cibaoense † Waller 2011
• Palliolum excisum † (Bronn, 1831) ^[3]
• Palliolum gerardi † Nyst 1835
• Palliolum guersi Wienrich 1999
• Palliolum incomparabile (Risso, 1826)
• Palliolum mellevillei † d'Orbigny 1850
• Palliolum minutulum Dijkstra & Southgate, 2000
• Palliolum striatum (O. F. Müller, 1776)
• Palliolum tigerinum (O. F. Müller, 1776)
• Palliolum tigrinum † Müller 1776

Notes and References

1. https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16889 Fossilworks
2. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138322 WoRMS
3. https://ricardojchp.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/palliolum-lissochlamys-excisum-bronn-1831/ Ricardojcho