Biology:Manzanellidae

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Short description: Extinct family of bivalves

Manzanellidae
Manzanella elliptica, left valve (from Girty, 1909).png
Manzanella elliptica
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Solemyida
Superfamily: Manzanelloidea
Family: Manzanellidae
Chronic, 1952[1]

Manzanellidae is a fossil family of bivalves, in the order Solemyida. They were previously considered containing fossil and recent members of Nucinellidae.[2]

Genera and species

  • Manzanella Girty, 1909[3]
    • Manzanella elliptica Girty, 1909[3]
    • Manzanella cryptodentata Chronic, 1952[1]
  • Posterodonta Kauffman, 1976[4]
    • Posterodonta manihikiensis Kauffman, 1976[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Chronic H. (1952). "Molluscan fauna from Permian Kaibab formation, Walnut Canyon, Arizona". Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 63 (2): 95–165. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1952)63[95:mfftpk2.0.co;2]. Bibcode1952GSAB...63...95C. 
  2. Oliver P. G., Taylor J. D. (2012). "Bacterial symbiosis in the Nucinellidae (Bivalvia: Solemyida) with descriptions of two new species". Journal of Molluscan Studies 78 (1): 81–91. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr045. http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/78/1/81.full. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Girty G. H.. "The Manzano Group of the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico". United States Geological Survey Bulletin 389: 1–141. http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0389/report.pdf#page=143. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Kauffman E. H. (1976). "Deep-sea Cretaceous macrofossils: Hole 317A, Manihiki Plaeau". Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 33 (16): 503–535. http://www.deepseadrilling.org/33/volume/dsdp33_16.pdf. 

Further reading

  • Coan, Eugene V.; Valentich-Scott, Paul (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. ISBN 978-0936494432. 
  • Mikkelsen, Paula M.; Bieler, Rüdiger (2008). Seashells of Southern Florida. Living marine mollusks of the Florida Keys and adjacent regions. Bivalves. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691116068. 

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