Chesapecten

Chesapecten
Temporal range: 20.4–0.7 Ma Early Miocene to Early Pleistocene
Chesapecten jeffersonius (outside)
Chesapecten jeffersonius (inside)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pectinida
Family: Pectinidae
Genus: †Chesapecten
Type species
Chesapecten nefrens
Ward & Blackwater, 1975

Chesapecten is an extinct genus of scallop known from marine strata from the early Miocene to the early Pleistocene of the Eastern United States.[1]

It flourished in the shallow seas along the Mid-Atlantic during this period. Other scallops lived at the same time, but Chesapectens were the most abundant.

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