Clavagella

Clavagella; Temporal range: 72.1–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subterclass:	Heterodonta
Family:	Clavagellidae
Genus:	Clavagella; Blainville 1817
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Bacilia Gray, 1858

Clavagella is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Clavagellidae.

Taxonomy[]

Subgenera:

(Gray 1847)
Blainville 1817
Gray 1858

Species:

†Clavagella elegans Müller, 1859
(Tate, 1887)
Deshayes 1857

Fossil species[]

The genus is also represented in the fossil record.

Clavagella elegans is from the Campanian-Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of in the Sahara province of Algeria.^[2] The type specimen (number MNHN.F.R53841) is kept at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.^[3]

References[]

^ Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. H de Blainville AG Desmarest (ed.) 9, 151, 1817
^ Collignon (M.), 1971 - Gastéropodes et Lamellibranches du Sahara. Annales de Paléontologie, t. 57, vol. 2, p. 145-202
^ C. elegans at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

External links[]

"Clavagella" at the Encyclopedia of Life

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[1] Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. H de Blainville AG Desmarest (ed.) 9, 151, 1817

[2] Collignon (M.), 1971 - Gastéropodes et Lamellibranches du Sahara. Annales de Paléontologie, t. 57, vol. 2, p. 145-202

[3] C. elegans at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

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