Manzanellidae

Manzanellidae
Manzanella elliptica
Scientific classification
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. Chronic H. (1952). "Molluscan fauna from Permian Kaibab formation, Walnut Canyon, Arizona". Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 63 (2): 95–165. Bibcode:1952GSAB...63...95C. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1952)63[95:mfftpk]2.0.co;2.
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 .
3. Girty G. H. "The Manzano Group of the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico" (PDF). United States Geological Survey Bulletin. 389: 1–141.
4. Kauffman E. H. (1976). "Deep-sea Cretaceous macrofossils: Hole 317A, Manihiki Plaeau" (PDF). Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 33 (16): 503–535.

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.