Pteromyrtea
Genus of gastropods
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Pteromyrtea is a genus of extinct sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lucinidae.[1] Species in the genus date to between the Cretaceous and the Miocene, and have been found in strata in Argentina and New Zealand.
| Pteromyrtea Temporal range: | |
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| Pteromyrtea obesa | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Lucinida |
| Family: | Lucinidae |
| Genus: | †Pteromyrtea H. J. Finlay, 1926 |
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| † Cyclina dispar F. W. Hutton, 1873 | |
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Taxonomy
Pteromyrtea was first described in 1926 by Harold Finlay as a subgenus of Notomyrtea.[2] The taxon has since been elevated to genus level.[1]
Distribution
Fossils of the genus date to between the Cretaceous and Miocene, and have been found in Argentina and New Zealand.[3] Many New Zealand species date to the Altonian stage (early Miocene) of New Zealand.[4][5]
Species
Species within the genus Pteromyrtea include:[1]
- † Pteromyrtea auriculata (Bartrum, 1919)
- † Pteromyrtea cristata Marwick, 1931
- † Pteromyrtea danieli del Río, 1994
- † Pteromyrtea dispar (F. W. Hutton, 1873)
- † Pteromyrtea disparilis Laws, 1944
- † Pteromyrtea exilis Marwick, 1943
- † Pteromyrtea laminata (F. W. Hutton, 1885)
- † Pteromyrtea motutaraensis A. W. B. Powell, 1935
- † Pteromyrtea obesa H. J. Finlay & Marwick, 1937
- † Pteromyrtea tirangiensis (Marwick, 1926)