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Pomarangina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Bivalvia
    Subclass:  
Heterodonta
    Order:  
Hippuritoida (rudists and relatives)
    Superfamily:  
Megalodontacea
    Family:  
Megalodontidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pomarangina DIENER, 1908, p. 64
    Type Species:  
P. haydeni, M


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Geographic Distribution

Asia(Himalayas)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Trias.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Carnian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
237
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Trias.
    Ending International Stage:  
Rhaetian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
201.36


Description

Ovate, inequilateral, moderately gibbose, thick-shelled, some specimens slightly inequivalve, with RV larger, beaks prosogyrous and incurved, valves carinate posteriorly, dentition and musculature unknown




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