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Mytilus sp.

genus Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758

• Modern species: Early Devonian - Present (416.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, order Mytiloida, family Mytilidae

• Distribution
• Jurassic: Toyama
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Gunma, Tochigi, Gifu, Mie, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi
• Miocene-Pliocene: Nagano
• Pliocene: Aomori

• Subtaxa
• M. galloprovincialis, Mediterranean mussel
• M. giganteus
• M. tichanovitchi
• M. unguiculatus