Oxytoma

{{Short description|Extinct genus of bivalves}}

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| fossil_range = Late Permian-Early Paleocene, {{fossilrange|259|62}}

| image = Oxytoma inequivalve 01.jpg

| image_caption = Oxytoma inequivalve (Sowerby, 1819)

| taxon = Oxytoma

| authority = Meek, 1864

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| subdivision =

| synonyms = *Pteria

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Oxytoma is an extinct genus of bivalve molluscs that lived from the Late Permian to the early Paleocene,H. E. Vokes. 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic CatalogueF. B. Meek. 1864. Section III. Description of the Jurassic Fossils. Palaeontology of California. Vol. I. 37-54 with a worldwide distribution except Australia.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16876 Oxytoma] in the Paleobiology DatabaseFossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 99) The genus was named in 1864 by Fielding Bradford Meek.F. B. Meek. 1864. Remarks on the family Pteriidae, (=Aviculidae) with descriptions of some new fossil genera. The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series 37:212-220