[HTML][HTML] Resolving phylogenetic and classical nomenclature: A revision of Seraphsidae Jung, 1974 (Gastropoda: Neostromboidae)

SJ Maxwell, TL Rymer, BC Congdon - Zootaxa, 2021 - mapress.com
This revision demonstrates that an integrated taxonomic approach to classical taxonomic
practice can lead to increased internal cladistic resolution within a clade, including the …

[HTML][HTML] Glowing seashells: diversity of fossilized coloration patterns on coral reef-associated cone snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) shells from the Neogene of the …

JR Hendricks - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The biology of modern Conidae (cone snails)—which includes the hyperdiverse genus
Conus—has been intensively studied, but the fossil record of the clade remains poorly …

Middle Lutetian climate in the Paris Basin: implications for a marine hotspot of paleobiodiversity

D Huyghe, D Merle, F Lartaud, E Cheype, L Emmanuel - Facies, 2012 - Springer
The present study reports the evolution of environmental conditions and seawater
temperatures during the establishment of a marine hotspot of paleobiodiversity that took …

Röding's Stromboidea (Caenogastropoda): the remains of the Bolten collection in the Museum der Natur Gotha (Germany), a critical review of Röding's taxa, and …

GC Kronenberg, U Wieneke - Basteria, 2020 - natuurtijdschriften.nl
We examined the collection in the Museum der Natur Gotha (mng) for specimens of
Stromboidea, once in the collection of the German physicist Joachim Friedrich Bolten, first …

Fluorescent colour patterns in the basal pectinid Pleuronectites from the Middle Triassic of Central Europe: origin, fate and taxonomic implications of fluorescence

K Wolkenstein - Palaeontology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
UV light‐induced fluorescence is widely used as a key to reveal residual shell colour
patterns of Neogene and Palaeogene molluscs. However, only few examples of fluorescent …

Taxonomic implications of the residual colour patterns of ampullinid gastropods and their contribution to the discrimination from naticids

B Caze, D Merle, M Le Meur, JM Pacaud… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2011 - BioOne
Caze, B., Merle, D., Le Meur, M., Pacaud, J.-M., Ledon, D., and Saint Martin, J.-P. 2011.
Taxonomic implications of the residual colour patterns of ampullinid gastropods and their …

[HTML][HTML] UV light reveals the diversity of Jurassic shell colour patterns: examples from the Cordebugle Lagerstätte (Calvados, France)

B Caze, D Merle, S Schneider - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Viewed under UV light the diverse and exceptionally well-preserved molluscs from the Late
Jurassic Cordebugle Konservat Lagerstätte (Calvados, Normandy, France) reveal …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of residual colour patterns to the species characterization of Caenozoic molluscs (Gastropoda, Bivalvia)

B Caze, D Merle, JP Saint Martin, JM Pacaud - Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2011 - Elsevier
In order to characterize fossil species of molluscs, palaeontologists can only rely on shell
morphology. The lack of many data used by biologists to describe the extant species of …

Late Miocene Conidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Crete (Greece). Part 1: genera Conilithes Swainson, 1840 and Conus (Kalloconus) da Motta, 1991

C Psarras, E Koskeridou, D Merle - Geodiversitas, 2021 - BioOne
Conidae is a diverse family of carnivorous marine gastropods. They rapidly diversified
during the Miocene and now they inhabit tropical and subtropical seas. Here we attempt to …

Paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographical implications of a Middle Pleistocene mollusc assemblage from the marine terraces of Baía das Pipas, southwest …

JA Sessa, PM Callapez, PA Dinis… - Journal of …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Quaternary raised marine terraces containing the remains of diverse, shallow water marine
invertebrate faunas are widespread across the coast of Angola. These deposits and faunas …