''Palliolum'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of scallops,
marine bivalve molluscs in the family
Pectinidae
Scallop () is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops. However, the common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families ...
, the scallops.
This genus is known in the fossil record from the
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
to the
Quaternary (age range: 37.2 to 0.012 million years ago).
Species
Species within the genus ''Lissochlamys'' include:
* ''
Palliolum cibaoense'' †
Waller 2011
* ''
Palliolum excisum'' †
(Bronn, 1831) Ricardojcho
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* '' Palliolum gerardi'' † Nyst 1835
* '' Palliolum guersi'' Wienrich 1999
* '' Palliolum incomparabile'' (Risso, 1826)
* '' Palliolum mellevillei'' † d'Orbigny 1850
* '' Palliolum minutulum'' Dijkstra & Southgate, 2000
* '' Palliolum striatum'' (O. F. Müller, 1776)
* '' Palliolum tigerinum'' (O. F. Müller, 1776)
* '' Palliolum tigrinum'' † Müller 1776
References
Pectinidae
Bivalve genera
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