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Pleuronectites meeki Newell & Boyd, 1995 †
1637841 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1637841)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Newell, N. D.; Boyd, D. W. (1995). Pectinoid bivalves of the Permian-Triassic crisis. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 227: 1-95, figs. 1-64.
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Taxonomic remark Waller (2005) considered the species to be "more likely an entoliid similar to the genus Pectinella Verrill, 1897. It...
Taxonomic remark Waller (2005) considered the species to be "more likely an entoliid similar to the genus Pectinella Verrill, 1897. It apparently lacks a ctenolium and clearly does not have the prominent byssal fasciole that is present in Pleuronectites." He did not formally re-combine the taxon though. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleuronectites meeki Newell & Boyd, 1995 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1637841 on 2025-09-11
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Newell, N. D.; Boyd, D. W. (1995). Pectinoid bivalves of the Permian-Triassic crisis. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 227: 1-95, figs. 1-64.
page(s): 72, fig. 52 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Waller, T. R.; Stanley, G. D. Jr. (2005). Middle Triassic Pteriomorphian Bivalvia (Mollusca) from the New Pass Range, west-central Nevada: Systematics, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 79(S61: Paleontological Society Memoir 61): 1-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2005)79[1:MTPBMF]2.0.CO;2
page(s): 39 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 72, fig. 52 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Waller, T. R.; Stanley, G. D. Jr. (2005). Middle Triassic Pteriomorphian Bivalvia (Mollusca) from the New Pass Range, west-central Nevada: Systematics, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 79(S61: Paleontological Society Memoir 61): 1-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2005)79[1:MTPBMF]2.0.CO;2
page(s): 39 [details] Available for editors
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Taxonomic remark Waller (2005) considered the species to be "more likely an entoliid similar to the genus Pectinella Verrill, 1897. It apparently lacks a ctenolium and clearly does not have the prominent byssal fasciole that is present in Pleuronectites." He did not formally re-combine the taxon though. [details]
