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Color pattern on the Carboniferous bivalve Streblochondria? Newell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2016

Royal H. Mapes
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens 45701
E. J. Benstock
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens 45701

Abstract

This report describes a previously unknown chevron color pattern preserved on the Carboniferous bivalve Streblochondria? and discusses the significance of color patterns on Paleozoic bivalves as a group. Analysis of Paleozoic color pattern distribution suggests that the appearance of predators in the Devonian may have influenced preferential evolutionary selection for the development of color patterns in bivalves.

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Research Article
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