Panenka (bivalve)

Panenka
Temporal range: Devonian
Panenka bohemica from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Cryptodonta
Order: Praecardioida
Family: Antipleuridae
Genus: Panenka
Barrande 1881

Panenka is a genus of fossil saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Antipleuridae. Like most bivalves, these molluscs were suspension feeders. They lived in the Devonian Period (416,0 ± 2,8 e 359,2 ± 2,5 mya).

Description

The valves of the shell of the species in the genus Panenka are relatively thin and somewhat elongated. Unlike most other bivalves, these species, as all the others in the subclass Cryptodonta, have no hinge teeth on their shells.

Distribution

This genus has been found in the Carboniferous of Australia; Devonian of Australia, Colombia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Spain, United States; Silurian to Devonian of Mauritania; Silurian of Algeria, the Czech Republic, France, Morocco, Spain, and Western Sahara.

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