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Asoella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Bivalvia
    Subclass:  
Pteriomorphia
    Order:  
Pterioida
    Suborder:  
Pteriina
    Superfamily:  
Pectinacea (scallops and relatives)
    Family:  
Aviculopectinidae
    Subfamily:  
Aviculopectininae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Asoella TOKUYAMA, 1959, p. 2
    Type Species:  
Eumorphotis (A.) confertoradiata, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. C60,2. A. laevigata (Токиуnam), 2 a-c, LV ext., dorsal part RV ext., int., all X6 (Tokuyama, 1959).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Japan


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Trias.(Nor.)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Norian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
227.3
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Trias.(Nor.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Norian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
205.74


Description

Small (height ca. 10 mm .), quadrately suborbicular, almost acline, LV strongly convex, with broadly rounded, projecting umbo, RV feebly convex, wings of LV and right posterior wing subequal, obtuse or slightly acute, not well delimited, marginal sinus below each shallow or absent, right anterior auricle almost as long as posterior wing, subauricular notch relatively shallow, surface with fine radial riblets or smooth




References

\& Tokuyama, Akira, 1959, Daonella in Japan: Univ. Tokyo, Jour. Fac. Sci., sec. 2, v. 12, pt. 1, p. 1-30.


Museum or Author Information

Tokuyama, 1959