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- anchor themselves directly to hard substrates similar to other common byssate molluscs. Members of the genus Pinna often in clusters or loosely spaced...
- Cretaceous strata (from 295.0 to 66.043 Ma.) These bivalves are epifaunal byssate suspension feeders of up to 12 cm in size. The s**** are obliquely ovate...
- specimens up to 70 cm. This genus was founded to be a bivalve with a juvenile byssate stage that developed different lifestyles in adulthood depending on the...
- bivalve, up to 70 cm length. This genus was found to be a bivalve with a byssate juvenile stage that developed different modes of life on the adulthood...
- remains, indeterminate echinoid tests, an isolated crinoid ossicle, the byssate bivalve Oxytoma inaequivalvis, the pectinid Propeamussium pumilus, Eopecten...
- and are absent from the continental shelf. They are relatively small, byssate (i.e. attached to the sea floor by strong threads, or byssus), and, while...