Evidence from the fossil record of an antipredatory exaptation: Conchiolin layers in corbulid bivalves

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 68-79

  Kardon, Gabrielle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Corbulidae; Functional morphology; Naticidae; Predator prey; Shell

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENCE; BIVALVE; EXAPTATION; FOSSIL RECORD;

BIVALVIA; CORBULA GIBBA; VARICORBULA;

EID: 0031953649     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb05139.x     Document Type: Review

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