Explore: Bivalves Fossiles

bivalves are used in craftwork, and the manufacture of jewellery and buttons. Bivalves have also been used in the biocontrol of pollution. Bivalves appear

not contain complete bivalves including the shell, or alternatively only internal molds. While the term is mostly used for bivalve accumulations, other

as the inside of a bivalve or snail or the hollow of a skull. Endocasts are sometimes termed Steinkerns, especially when bivalves are preserved this way

genus of bivalve molluscs that reportedly lived from the Devonian to the Early Jurassic period. It is not clear, however, that all the fossils assigned

abundant today. The Early Cambrian fossils Fordilla and Pojetaia are regarded as bivalves. "Modern-looking" bivalves appeared in the Ordovician period

fossils of fish, reptiles and of course bivalves . Fossils found Part of an embedded ammonite fossil, 3.5cm, with a calcite centre. An 8 cm bivalve fossil

cnidarians and stromatolites. Many bivalve fossils have also been found in Silurian deposits, and the first deep-boring bivalves are known from this period.

Harvey River Formation is a geologic formation in Jamaica. It preserves bivalve fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic

toenails, is a genus of extinct oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Gryphaeidae. These fossils range from the Triassic period to the middle Paleogene

abundant today. The Early Cambrian fossils Fordilla and Pojetaia are regarded as bivalves. "Modern-looking" bivalves appeared in the Ordovician period