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Haliotis sp., Abalone(s)

genus Haliotis Linnaeus, 1758

• Modern species: Late Cretaceous - Present (84.9 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Gastropoda, order Lepetellida, family Haliotidae

• Distribution
• Miocene: Fukui, Shimane
• Miocene-Pliocene: Nagano
• Pliocene: Nagano
• Investigation in progress: Saitama (Miocene?)

• Subtaxa
• H. discus subsp. hannai
• H. kamtschatkana subsp. koyamai
• H. notoensis
• H. tuberculata subsp. tuberculata