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Mizuhopecten sp.

genus Mizuhopecten Masuda, 1963

Synonym of genus Patinopecten?

• Modern species: early Miocene - Present (16.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, order Pectinida, family Pectinidae

• Distribution
• Miocene: Aomori, Miyagi, Yamagata, Toyama, Fukui, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Mie, Yamaguchi
• Miocene-Pliocene: Nagano
• Pliocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Niigata, Toyama, Tokyo
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Nagano, Ishikawa, Kanagawa, Oita
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka
• Investigation in progress: Nagano

• Subtaxa
• M. chichibuensis
• M. kimurai
• M. matumoriensis
• M. paraplebejus
• M. planicostulatus
• M. tokyoensis
• M. tokyoensis hokurikuensis
• M. tryblium
• M. yamasakii
• M. yessoensis, Yesso scallop, Japanese scallop
• M. y. yokoyamae