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Presents current research on fossil and living bivalves in 30 papers from the September 29-October 2 1995 symposium. The contributors focus on diverse aspects of bivalves, including their form, functional morphology, morphogenesis, taphonomy, shell microstructure, cladistic relationships, biostratigraphic distributions, and molecular sequences. Sample topics are: origin of the molluscan class bivalvia and a phylogeny of major groups, early carboniferous bivalves of the central European Culm Facies, and rudists as bivalvian dinosaurs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
