ammonites
Pinna shekhanensis Eames 1951 (clam)

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae

Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1951. A Contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: B. Description of the Lamellibranchia from standard sections in the Rakni Nala and Zinda Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 235:311-482

Belongs to Pinna according to F. E. Eames 1951

Sister taxa: Pinna (Pinna), Pinna (Sulcatopinna), Pinna ampla, Pinna bicolor, Pinna carnea, Pinna confutsiana, Pinna constantini, Pinna cordata, Pinna credneri, Pinna deltodes, Pinna deshayesi, Pinna dolosoniensis, Pinna freneixae, Pinna incurva, Pinna kawhiana, Pinna laqueata, Pinna latrania, Pinna lima, Pinna margaritacea, Pinna meriani, Pinna muikadanensis, Pinna muricata, Pinna octavia, Pinna pectinata, Pinna punjabensis, Pinna qinghaiensis, Pinna reginamaris, Pinna rembangensis, Pinna richthofeni, Pinna robusta, Pinna rudis, Pinna saccata, Pinna semicostata, Pinna semisulcata, Pinna triquetra, Pinna vexillum

Type specimen: L. 79908, a shell. Its type locality is Kohat, Pakistan, which is in an Eocene marine shale/limestone in Pakistan.

Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 117.0 x 72.5