Oxytoma
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| Oxytoma Temporal range: Late Permian-Early Paleocene, | |
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| Oxytoma inequivalve (Sowerby, 1819) | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Family: | †Oxytomidae |
| Genus: | †Oxytoma Meek, 1864 |
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Oxytoma is an extinct genus of bivalve molluscs that lived from the Late Permian to the early Paleocene,[1][2] with a worldwide distribution except Australia.[3][4] The genus was named in 1864 by Fielding Bradford Meek.[5]
