Cambrian Pelecypoda (Mollusca)

Authors
Citation
J. Pojeta, Cambrian Pelecypoda (Mollusca), AM MALAC B, 15(2), 2000, pp. 157-166
Citations number
45
Categorie Soggetti
Animal Sciences
Journal title
AMERICAN MALACOLOGICAL BULLETIN
ISSN journal
07402783 → ACNP
Volume
15
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
157 - 166
Database
ISI
SICI code
0740-2783(2000)15:2<157:CP(>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
The record of Cambrian bivalved organisms that have been placed in the Moll usca includes undoubted pelecypods and other bivalved shells. This record i s reviewed herein. Additional topotype material of Delgado's (1904, Communi cacoes da Commissao do Service Geologico de Portugal 5:307-374) Lower Cambr ian specimens from Portugal shows that they are distorted brachiopods. Rest udy of Zhang's (1980a, Bulletin Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Ser ies 8, 1:1-19; 1980b, 26th International Geological Congress 4:121-129) typ e specimens from the Lower Cambrian of China shows that most of them are al so brachiopods. New specimens of Tuarangia MacKinnon indicate that this gen us is a Middle-Upper Cambrian pelecypod.