Wilkingia is an extinct genus of fossil bivalve molluscs that lived from the Early Carboniferous (Visean) to the Late Permian (Changhsingian) in Asia, Europe, North and South America (Río del Peñón Formation of Argentina, Piauí Formation of Brazil and Cerro El Arbol Formation of Chile).[1]
Wilkingia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Family: | †Sanguinolitidae |
Genus: | †Wilkingia Wilson, 1959 |
References
edit- ^ Wilkingia at Fossilworks.org
Further reading
edit- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 113)