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Evolutionary implications of a duplivincular ligament in the Carboniferous pinnid Pteronites (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pteriomorphia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Joseph G. Carter
Joseph G. Carter*
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Department of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599-3315
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Modern pinnoideans, or “pen shells,” are shallowly to deeply endobyssate, equivalved, edentulous, ham-shaped bivalves with a single, slightly submerged, opisthodetic ligament. Malacologists have generally regarded pinnids as closely related to the pterioid superfamily Pterioidea, especially its Paleozoic family Pterineidae (e.g., Zittel, 1927, p. 446; Thiele, 1935, p. 803; Pojeta, 1978; Waller, 1978). As early as 1890, Jackson suggested that pinnids evolved from the Silurian-Permian pterineid Leptodesma Hall, 1883. More recently, Pojeta (1978, p. 239) speculated that they evolved from the pterineid Pteronitella Billings, 1874 (a Silurian genus similar to Leptodesma) through the morphologically intermediate Devonian Palaeopinna Hall, 1883. The hinge and ligament of Palaeopinna remain unknown, so its family-level placement is uncertain (Newell and LaRocque, 1969, p. N301). However, Leptodesma and Pteronitella have hinge teeth, inequivalved shells, and a duplivincular ligament similar to other pterineids (Newell and LaRocque, 1969, p. N299–N301; Pojeta, 1978, p. 239; Pojeta and Runnegar, 1985, fig. 16D; Carter, 1990a, p. 205; 1990b, p. 334).

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 78 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 235 - 239
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