{{Short description|Extinct genus of bivalves}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Early Devonian|Late Triassic|Early Devonian – Late Triassic}} | image = Aviculopecten_subcardiformis01.JPG | image_caption = ''A. subcardiformis'' from the Logan Formation (Lower Carboniferous) of Wooster, Ohio (external mold) | taxon = Aviculopecten | authority = M'Coy, 1851 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | type_species = ''Aviculopecten planoradiatus'' }}
'''''Aviculopecten''''' is an extinct genus of bivalve mollusc that lived from the Early Devonian to the Late Triassic in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.<ref name=FWAviculopecten>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16505 ''Aviculopecten''] at Fossilworks.org</ref>
A fine fossil of the species ''A. subcardiformis'' has been found in the 345 million year old Logan Formation of Wooster, Ohio. It is an external mould and the impression left by the valve is so clear that the fine ridges and even the growth lines are visible.<ref>[http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2011/03/13/wooster%E2%80%99s-fossil-of-the-week-a-sweet-local-scallop-lower-carboniferous-of-wooster/ Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A sweet local scallop (Lower Carboniferous of Wooster)] Wooster geologists. Retrieved 2012-04-20.</ref>
== Species == The following species of ''Aviculopecten'' have been described:<ref name=FWAviculopecten/> {{div col|colwidth=15em}} * ''A. altus'' * ''A. appalachianus'' * ''A. arctisulcatus'' * ''A. artiensis'' * ''A. asiaticus'' * ''A. ballingerana'' * ''A. basilicus'' * ''A. batesvillensis'' * ''A. beipeiensis'' * ''A. bellatulus'' * ''A. bertrandi'' * ''A. bouei'' * ''A. caodigouensis'' * ''A. columbianus'' * ''A. coryeanus'' * ''A. coxanus'' * ''A. crebristriatus'' * ''A. crenistriatus'' * ''A. cunctatus'' * ''A. cypticostatus'' * ''A. densistriatus'' * ''A. derajatensis'' * ''A. diemenensis'' * ''A. draschei'' * ''A. eaglensis'' * ''A. expositus'' * ''A. flabellum'' * ''A. frederixi'' * ''A. germanus'' * ''A. giganteus'' * ''A. girtyi'' * ''A. gradicosta'' * ''A. gryphus'' * ''A. guangxiensis'' * ''A. halensis'' * ''A. hardmani'' * ''A. hataii'' * ''A. hayasakai'' * ''A. hemisphaerus'' * ''A. idahoensis'' * ''A. imbricatus'' * ''A. inspeciosus'' * ''A. jabiensis'' * ''A. jennyi'' * ''A. jiaozishanensis'' * ''A. kaibabensis'' * ''A. katwahiensis'' * ''A. keoughensis'' * ''A. khinganensis'' * ''A. kunlunensis'' * ''A. langdaiensis'' * ''A. latrobensis'' * ''A. lobanovae'' * ''A. lopingensis'' * ''A. malayensis'' * ''A. mayesensis'' * ''A. mazonensis'' * ''A. mccoyi'' * ''A. media'' * ''A. minutum'' * ''A. misrikhanensis'' * ''A. moorei'' * ''A. morahensis'' * ''A. morrowensis'' * ''A. multilineatus'' * ''A. multiradiatus'' * ''A. nikolaewi'' * ''A. nitidus'' * ''A. nodocosta'' * ''A. occidentalis'' * ''A. onukii'' * ''A. orientalis'' * ''A. ozarkensis'' * ''A. panxianensis'' * ''A. paradoxus'' * ''A. pealei'' * ''A. peculiaris'' * ''A. pitkinensis'' * ''A. planoradiatus'' * ''A. ponderosus'' * ''A. praecox'' * ''A. prototextorius'' * ''A. pseudoctenostreon'' * ''A. pseudoradiatus'' * ''A. punjabensis'' * ''A. qinghaiensis'' * ''A. regularis'' * ''A. rossiensis'' * ''A. ruklensis'' * ''A. scheremetus'' * ''A. serdobowae'' * ''A. shiroshitai'' * ''A. sicanus'' * ''A. simplicus'' * ''A. spinocostatus'' * ''A. squamiger'' * ''A. squamula'' * ''A. squamula'' * ''A. subparadoxus'' * ''A. subregularis'' * ''A. subtristriatus'' * ''A. sulaensis'' * ''A. sumnerensis'' * ''A. symmetricus'' * ''A. terminalis'' * ''A. tompo'' * ''A. tristriatus'' * ''A. uralicus'' * ''A. verbeeki'' * ''A. waageni'' * ''A. wilczekiformis'' * ''A. winchelli'' * ''A. wynnei'' * ''A. xiaoyuanchongensis'' * ''A. yunnanensis'' * ''A. zhongyingensis'' {{div col end}}
== References == {{Portal|Paleontology}} {{Reflist}}
== Further reading == * ''Fossils'' (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 98)
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