Pteromyrtea
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| Pteromyrtea Temporal range: | |
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| Pteromyrtea obesa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Lucinida |
| Family: | Lucinidae |
| Genus: | †Pteromyrtea H. J. Finlay, 1926 |
| Type species | |
| † Cyclina dispar F. W. Hutton, 1873 | |
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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 was first described in 1926 by Harold Finlay as a subgenus of Notomyrtea.[2] The taxon has since been elevated to genus level.[1]