Claraia
| Claraia Temporal range: Guadalupian to Middle Triassic
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| Claraia clarai from the Werfen Formation | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Family: | †Pterinopectinidae |
| Genus: | †Claraia Bittner, 1901 |
Claraia is an extinct
Disaster taxon
Ecology
Claraia may have been an
sessile animals during the extinction event.[1] It is thought to have lived in anoxic waters at great depths, and therefore may have been better adapted for the anoxic event
that may have occurred during the Permian–Triassic extinction event.
References
- ^ Feng, Qinglai; Gu, Songzhu; He, Weihong; Meng, Youyan; Weldon, Elisabeth A.; Wu, Shunbao; & Zhang, Fan (2007) A Late Permian to Early Triassic bivalve fauna from the Dongpan Section, Southern Guangxi, South China. Journal of Paleontology 81: 1009–1019.
External links
- Claraia at The Paleobiology Database
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