| Abstract: | Specimens of the small bivalved animal Fordilla troyensis Barrande from New York State show that this fossil is the oldest known pelecypod mollusk and not a conchostracan arthropod. This finding extends the range of the class Pelecypoda backward in time from the Early Ordovician (about 495 million years ago) to the Early Cambrian (about 540 to 570 million years ago). The morphology of Fordilla troyensis suggests that it lived infaunally and that it was ancestral to the pelecypod subclasses Heteroconchia and Isofilibranchia. |
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| Citation Author: | Pojeta, Jr. , J.; Runnegar, B.; Kriz, J. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Fordilla troyensis Barrande: The oldest known pelecypod; 1973; Article; Journal; Science; Pojeta, Jr. , J.; Runnegar, B.; Kriz, J. |
| Citation Start Page: | 866 |
| Citation Volume: | 180 |
| Citation Year: | 1973 |
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| Text: | Fordilla troyensis Barrande: The oldest known pelecypod; 1973; Article; Journal; Science; Pojeta, Jr. , J.; Runnegar, B.; Kriz, J. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg |
| Date Other: | Mon, 1 Jan 1973 00:00 -0600 |
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