Fordilloidea

Fordilloidea
Temporal range: 520.0–513.0 Ma
Fordilla troyensis outer shell surface[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: †Fordillida
Superfamily: †Fordilloidea
Pojeta, 1975
Families

Fordilloidea is an extinct superfamily of early bivalves[2] containing two described families, Fordillidae and Camyidae and the only superfamily in the order Fordillida.[2] The superfamily is known from fossils of early to middle Cambrian age found in North America, Greenland, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia.[3][4][5] Fordillidae currently contains two genera, Fordilla and Pojetaia each with up to three described species while Camyidae only contains a single genus Camya with one described species, Camya asy.[3][5] Due to the size and age of the fossil specimens, Fordillidae species are included as part of the Turkish Small shelly fauna.[3]

  1. ^ Charles Doolittle Walcott (1886). Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America. Vol. 30 of Geological Survey bulletin. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 1–369.
  2. ^ a b Carter, J.G.; et al. (2011). "A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca)" (PDF). Paleontological Contributions. 4: 1–47.
  3. ^ a b c Elicki, O.; Gürsu, S. (2009). "First record of Pojetaia runnegari Jell, 1980 and Fordilla Barrande, 1881 from the Middle East (Taurus Mountains, Turkey) and critical review of Cambrian bivalves" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 83 (2): 267–291. doi:10.1007/s12542-009-0021-9. S2CID 49380913. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
  4. ^ The Paleobiology Database Fordillidae entry accessed 4 January 2012
  5. ^ a b The Paleobiology Database Fordilla entry[permanent dead link] accessed 4 January 2012