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Conchocele sp.

genus Conchocele Gabb, 1866

• Modern species: early Eocene - Present (48.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, family Thyasiridae

• Distribution
• Oligocene-Miocene: Nagano
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, Nagano, Gunma, Tochigi, Saitama, Chiba, Aichi
• Miocene-Pliocene: Hokkaido, Fukushima
• Pliocene: Niigata, Nagano, Toyama, Ishikawa
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Niigata
• Pleistocene: Toyama, Chiba, Kanagawa
• Investigation in progress: Nagano, Saitama (Miocene?)

• Subtaxa
• C. bisecta, Giant cleftclam
• C. compacta subsp. minor
• C. nipponica