''Palliolum'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of scallops, marine

bivalve Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s in the family

Pectinidae Scallop () is a common name that encompasses various species of Marine (ocean), marine bivalve mollusc, molluscs in the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family Pectinidae, the scallops. However, the common name "scallop" is also ...

, the scallops. This genus is known in the fossil record from the

Eocene The Eocene ( ) is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes ...

to the

Quaternary The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), as well as the current and most recent of the twelve periods of the ...

(age range: 37.2 to 0.012 million years ago).

Species

Species within the genus ''Lissochlamys'' include: * '' Palliolum cibaoense'' † Waller 2011 * '' Palliolum excisum'' † (Bronn, 1831) Ricardojcho
/ref> * '' Palliolum gerardi'' † Nyst 1835 * '' Palliolum guersi'' Wienrich 1999 * '' Palliolum incomparabile'' (Risso, 1826) * '' Palliolum mellevillei'' † d'Orbigny 1850 * '' Palliolum minutulum'' Dijkstra & Southgate, 2000 * '' Palliolum striatum'' (O. F. Müller, 1776) * '' Palliolum tigerinum'' (O. F. Müller, 1776) * '' Palliolum tigrinum'' † Müller 1776

References

Pectinidae Bivalve genera {{Pectinidae-stub