Pernopecten salarius Reed 1944 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae

Full reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1944. Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range. Palaeontogica Indica, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series 23(2):1-596

Belongs to Pernopecten according to F. R. C. Reed 1944

Sister taxa: Pernopecten attenuatus, Pernopecten aviculatus, Pernopecten carboniferus, Pernopecten clypeatus, Pernopecten concentricum, Pernopecten guangdongensis, Pernopecten guizhouensis, Pernopecten huayingshanensis, Pernopecten latangulatus, Pernopecten malaysia, Pernopecten obliquus, Pernopecten ohioensis, Pernopecten prosseri, Pernopecten sichuanensis, Pernopecten sowerbyi, Pernopecten subglobusus, Pernopecten subpiriformis, Pernopecten symmetricus, Pernopecten terukoae, Pernopecten tirolense, Pernopecten vadegensis, Pernopecten yini, Pernopecten zhonglingensis, Pernopecten zhutangensis

Type specimen: GSI 17195, a valve (right valve). Its type locality is Platform at foot of hill 2604, N. of Fazalwali dhok, top beds, Salt Range, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate limestone in the Wargal Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Platform at foot of hill 2604, N. of Fazalwali dhok, top beds, Salt Range

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