scallop-like bivalve
Bivalvia, cf. Deltopecten
Permian293.5–259.5 Ma
- Catalogue
- FA-0067
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Pectinida
- Locality
- South coast, New South Wales
- Unit
- not recorded
- Age
- Permian (Cisuralian–Guadalupian)
293.5–259.5 Ma - Reference
- Wikipedia
A large, coarsely ribbed bivalve of scallop form, with the two valves mirroring each other left and right — the opposite arrangement to a brachiopod.
Deltopecten is a characteristic bivalve of the cold-water Permian seas of eastern Australia and reached a considerable size. The fan-with-ears outline is the same shape used, from a living relative, as the Shell petroleum emblem.