marine
Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean.
Marine or marines may refer to:
Ocean
* Maritime (disambiguation)
* Marine art
* Marine biology
* Marine debris
* Marine habitats
* Marine life
* Marine pollution
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bivalve
Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the order
Ostreoida
The order Ostreida includes the true oysters. One superfamily (Ostreoidea) and two extant families are recognised within it. The two families are Ostreidae, the true oysters, and Gryphaeidae
The Gryphaeidae, common name the foam oysters or h ...
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Fossil species of these epifaunal carnivores lived from the
Triassic
The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period ...
period to the
Pliocene
The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58The Paleobiology Database /ref>
Propeamussium jeffreysii
''Propeamussium'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Ostreoida. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Propeamussium de Gregorio, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespe ...
Propeamussium meridionale
''Propeamussium'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Ostreoida. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Propeamussium de Gregorio, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespe ...
Propeamussium rubrotinctum
''Propeamussium'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Ostreoida. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Propeamussium de Gregorio, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespe ...
'' (Oyama, 1951)
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Propeamussium sibogai
''Propeamussium'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Ostreoida. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Propeamussium de Gregorio, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespe ...
'' (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1904)
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Propeamussium siratama
''Propeamussium'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Ostreoida. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Propeamussium de Gregorio, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespe ...
'' (Oyama in Kuroda, 1951)
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Propeamussium steindachneri
''Propeamussium'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Ostreoida. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Propeamussium de Gregorio, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespe ...
'' (Sturany, 1899)
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Propeamussium watsoni
''Propeamussium'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Ostreoida. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Propeamussium de Gregorio, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespe ...
'' (E. A. Smith, 1885)
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Propeamussium yubarense
''Propeamussium'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine (ocean), marine bivalve mollusks in the order Ostreoida. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Propeamussium de Gregorio, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https ...
'' (Yabe & Nagao, 1928)
* † '' Propeamussium zitteli'' (Hutton, 1873)
* '' Propeamussium zoniferum'' (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912)
;Synonyms:
* ''Propeamussium holmesii'' (Dall, 1886): synonym of '' Parvamussium holmesii'' (Dall, 1886)
* ''Propeamussium pourtalesianum'' (Dall, 1886): synonym of '' Parvamussium pourtalesianum'' (Dall, 1886)
* ''Propeamussium sayanum'' (Dall, 1886): synonym of '' Parvamussium sayanum'' (Dall, 1886)
* ''Propeamussium squamigerum'' (E. A. Smith, 1885): synonym of '' Parvamussium squamigerum'' (E. A. Smith, 1885)
References
* Frederick A. Sundberg - Propeamussium Species (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern California - Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), pp. 53–63
* Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.