''Clavagella'' is a genus of marine
bivalves in the family
Clavagellidae
Clavagellidae is a family of very unusual marine bivalves of the order Anomalodesmata.
Genera and species
* †'' Ascaulocardium'' Pojeta and N. F 1987
* '' Brechites'' Guettard 1770
** '' Brechites attrahens''
** '' Brechites brechites''
** ...
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Taxonomy
Subgenera:
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Clavagella (Bryopa)'' (Gray 1847)
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Clavagella (Clavagella)'' Blainville 1817
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Clavagella (Dacosta)'' Gray 1858
Species:
*†''Clavagella elegans'' Müller, 1859
*''
Clavagella liratum'' (Tate, 1887)
*''
Clavagella melitensis''
*''
Clavagella primigenia'' Deshayes 1857
Fossil species
The genus is also represented in the fossil record.
''Clavagella elegans'' is from the
Campanian
The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). In chronostratigraphy, it is the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous Series. Campani ...
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Maastrichtian
The Maastrichtian () is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem. It spanned the interval ...
(Upper Cretaceous) of
Tinrhert in the Sahara province of Algeria. The type specimen (number MNHN.F.R53841) is kept at the
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loca ...
in Paris.
''C. elegans'' at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
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References
External links
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Clavagellidae
Bivalve genera
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