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Paphia sp.

genus Paphia Röding, 1798

• Modern species: Late Cretaceous - Present (99.7 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

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

• Distribution
• Miocene: Ibaraki, Okayama, Tottori
• Pliocene: Shizuoka
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Kanagawa, Kochi
• Quaternary: Hiroshima
• Pleistocene: Niigata, Ishikawa, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Kyoto

• Subtaxa
• P. amabilis
• P. naganumana
• P. schnelliana
• P. vernicosa