Gigantopecten latissimus
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| Gigantopecten latissimus | |
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| Gigantopecten latissimus from France. Miocene (abt. 20 Ma) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Family: | Pectinidae |
| Genus: | †Gigantopecten |
| Species: | †G. latissimus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Gigantopecten latissimus (Brocchi,1814) | |
Gigantopecten latissimus is a species of fossil scallop, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. This species lived during the Miocene and the Pliocene. Fossils have been found in the sediments of France and Spain.
