Palliolum Temporal range:
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Fossil valve of Palliolum excisum from Pliocene of Italy | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Pectinida |
Family: | Pectinidae |
Genus: | Palliolum Monterosato, 1884 |
Palliolum is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
This genus is known in the fossil record from the Eocene to the Quaternary (age range: 37.2 to 0.012 million years ago).[1]