Equichlamys bifrons (Lamarck, 1819)

Darragh, Thomas A., 2024, A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83, pp. 37-206 : 155

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scientific name	Equichlamys bifrons (Lamarck, 1819)
status

Treatment

Equichlamys bifrons (Lamarck, 1819) View in CoL

(Type species of the genus OD)

Pecten subbifrons Tate, 1882: 44 View in CoL .— Tate, 1886b: 104, pl. 3, fig. 2.

Pecten consobrinus Tate, 1886b: 104 View in CoL , pl. 3, fig. 6.— Harris, 1897: 317.

Pecten palmipes Tate, 1886b: 105 View in CoL , pl. 5, fig. 4, pl. 7, figs 4a, b.— Harris, 1897: 318; Marwick, 1924a: 326, pl. 5, fig. 6.

Chlamys (Equichlamys) consobrina (Tate, 1886) .— Ludbrook, 1955: 31; Ludbrook, 1959b: 224, pl. 1, fig. 2.

Chlamys (Equichlamys) subbifrons ( Tate, 1882) .— Ludbrook, 1959b: 224, pl. 1, fig. 1.

Chlamys (Equichlamys) palmipes (Tate, 1886) .— Ludbrook, 1959b: 225, pl. 1, figs 3–6.

Chlamys (Equichlamys) bifrons subbifrons ( Tate, 1882) .— Ludbrook, 1978: 47, pl. 2, figs 6, 7.

Chlamys (Equichlamys) bifrons palmipes (Tate, 1886) .— Ludbrook, 1978: 46, pl. 2, fig. 5.

Equichlamys bifrons (Lamarck, 1819) View in CoL .— Beu and Darragh, 2001: 53, Figs 13A–H, 14A–F.

Distribution. Perth Basin: “older” and “younger” Ascot Formation. Eucla Basin: Roe Calcarenite. St Vincent Basin: upper Dry Creek Sands, Hallett Cove Sandstone. Murray Basin: Norwest Bend Formation. Otway Basin: Werrikoo Limestone. Bass Basin: Memana Formation. Eastern southern– southern Eastern Australia (living). Age : late Pliocene–present.

Notochlamys Cotton, 1930

References

Beu, A. G., and Darragh, T. A. 2001 (September). Revision of Southern Australian Cenozoic Fossil Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 113 (1): 1 - 205.

Harris, G. F. 1897 (March). Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History), part I: the Australasian Tertiary Mollusca. British Museum (Natural History): London.

Ludbrook, N. H. 1955 (July). The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains, part II - Pelecypoda. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 78: 18 - 87.

Ludbrook, N. H. 1959 b (April). A widespread Pliocene molluscan fauna with Anodontia in South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 82: 219 - 233.

Ludbrook, N. H. 1978. Quaternary molluscs of the western part of the Eucla Basin. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Western Australia 125: 1 - 286.

Marwick, J. 1924 a (May). An examination of some of the Tertiary Mollusca claimed to be common to Australia and New Zealand. Report of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 16: 316 - 331.

Tate, R. 1882 (December). Diagnoses of new species of Miocene fossils from South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 5: 44 - 46.

Tate, R. 1886 b (May). The lamellibranchs of the Older Tertiary of Australia (part I). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 8: 96 - 158.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Bivalvia
Order	Pectinida
Family	Pectinidae
Genus	Equichlamys