Pulvinitinae
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- FAMILY
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Ostreida
- family
- Pulvinitidae
discussion
Remarks. Pulvinitids have never been reported from fossil seep deposits. The closest-related seep fossil group to have been recorded is an indeterminate species of the genus Phelopteria Stephenson, 1952 [1953], belonging to the family Bakevelliidae King, 1850, of the same superfamily, from the late Campanian Pierre Shale, northern USA (Shapiro & Fricke 2002). Pulvinitids also are unknown from modern New Zealand seep environments and the New Zealand Cenozoic fossil record, although the only living member of the family, Pulvinites exempla (Hedley, 1914), occurs off New Zealand (Marshall 1998) and is regarded as a living fossil (Tëmkin 2006). It seems likely, therefore, that it occurs as a fossil in New Zealand sedimentary strata, but until now has not been observed nor identified.
Name
- Homonyms
- Pulvinitinae