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Neilonellidae Schileyko 1989
- 1. Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA; & Earth Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, PL 4 8 AA, UK; & Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK;
- 2. Earth Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, PL 4 8 AA, UK; & Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
- 3. Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK;
Description
Family Neilonellidae Schileyko, 1989
Diagnosis. Hinge plate with taxodont teeth in two series, sometimes separated by narrow, plain area, without resilifer; ligament predominantly external, opisthodetic to amphidetic, weak.
Remarks. The Neilonellidae are very similar to the Nuculanidae, but the lack of a resilifer in mature adults supports their separation (Coan & Valentich-Scott 2012). The new specimens described herein differ from the Malletiidae in lacking conspicuous gapes, and from the Tindariidae in having a short gap in the dentition below the beaks (Di Geronimo & La Perna 1997). The family is currently known from the Jurassic to the present in all oceans, especially in deep water and soft substrates (Coan & Valentich-Scott 2012).
Notes
Published as part of Foster, William J., Danise, Silvia & Twitchett, Richard J., 2017, A silicified Early Triassic marine assemblage from Svalbard, pp. 851-877 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15 (10) on page 858, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2016.1245680, http://zenodo.org/record/10883052
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Neilonellidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Nuculanida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Schileyko
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neilonellidae Schileyko, 1989 sec. Foster, Danise & Twitchett, 2017
References
- Coan, E. V. & Valentich-Scott, P. 2012. Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs 6, Santa Barbara, CA, 1258 pp.
- Di Geronimo, I. & La Perna, R. 1997. Pleistocene bathyal molluscan assemblages from southern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 103, 1 - 10.