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    Mya is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Myidae. They are widespread and abundant in northern waters. Commonly known as...
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  • the Karen National Union Mýa (album), a 1998 album by Mýa Mya (bivalve), a genus of soft-shell clams Million years ago (mya), a unit of time used in astronomy...
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    Bivalvia (redirect from Bivalve)
    Permian–Triassic extinction event 250 Mya, bivalves were undergoing a huge radiation of diversity. The bivalves were hard hit by this event, but re-established...
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    Mya truncata, common name the blunt gaper or truncate softshell, is a species of edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Myidae....
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    Soft-shell clam (redirect from Mya arenaria)
    Jonathan & Peterson, Charles (April 2006), "Distribution of the invasive bivalve Mya arenaria L. on intertidal flats of southcentral Alaska", Journal of Sea...
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    ± 2,5 mya). The valves of the shell of the species in the genus Panenka are relatively thin and somewhat elongated. Unlike most other bivalves, these...
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  • Panopea abrupta (category Prehistoric bivalve stubs)
    abrupta is an extinct species of large marine bivalve mollusc in the family Hiatellidae, originally described as Mya abrupta. Its fossils were found in Miocene-aged...
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    Requienia is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clam, a marine bivalve molluscs in the order Hippuritida, family Requieniidae. These rudists lived in...
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    These are marine bivalve molluscs. The genus Venus is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and sexuality. However, some bivalves are still called...
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    including: Plebidonax deltoides Other bivalve species, including: Arctica islandica Geoduck Lithophaga lithophaga Mya truncata Pholas dactylus Placunidae...
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    Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve mollusc. The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most...
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    Titanosarcolites (category Prehistoric bivalve stubs)
    Titanosarcolites is a genus of giant rudist bivalve from the Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in Jamaica, Southeastern Mexico and the Southern...
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    Lopha (category Bivalve genera)
    bivalve molluscs in the family Ostreidae. The genus Lopha is present from the Triassic period in the Lower Norian age (216.5 ± 2.0 – 203.6 ± 1.5 Mya)...
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  • oysters. Perkinsus is a genus in the class Perkinsea that is a parasite of bivalve molluscs; it displays a number of features typical of the dinoflagellates...
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    boring predation in benthic organisms throughout the Mesozoic era (251 Mya to 66 Mya), along with bulldozing and sediment remodelling in marine habitats...
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    Delectopecten (category Bivalve genera)
    bivalve molluscs within the family Pectinidae. There are currently 18 members of this genus, with around half found as fossils dating back to 66 MYA....
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    Scallop (category Bivalve families)
    ˈskæləp/) is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops. However, the...
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    Myidae (category Bivalve families)
    Jayachandran, 2018) Mya Linnaeus, 1758 Mya arenaria Linnaeus, 1758 – soft-shell clam Mya baxteri Coan and Scott, 1997 Mya elegans (Eichwald, 1871) Mya japonica Jay...
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    which began around 539 million years ago (Mya), and most classes during the Ordovician radiation 485.4 Mya. 6,331 groups of genes common to all living...
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    Lutraria lutraria is a species of large marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mactridae. Its common names include the otter shell and the common otter...
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    Paphies australis (category Bivalves of New Zealand)
    Paphies australis or pipi (from the Māori language) is a bivalve mollusc of the family Mesodesmatidae, endemic to New Zealand. The pipi is a shellfish...
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    Period 201.3 million years ago (mya)) and the Ages of the Hettangian (201.3 to 199.3 mya) and Sinemurian (199.3 to 190.8 mya), the first two ages of the Jurassic...
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    Lopha marshii (category Bivalve stubs)
    oyster, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Ostreidae, the true oysters. This species was present in the Bajocian age (about 170 mya). Biolib Paleobiology...
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    Mountains of New Mexico and Texas, and dates between 272.95 ± 0.5 – 259.1 ± 0.4 Mya. The series saw the rise of the therapsids, a minor extinction event called...
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    the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period...
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  • Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 86.3 ± 0.7 mya (million years ago) and 83.6 ± 0.7 mya. The Santonian is preceded by the Coniacian and is followed...
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    the mustelids. Pinnipeds split from other caniforms 50 million years ago (Mya) during the Eocene. The clade is currently divided into three families: Family...
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    Trichomya (category Bivalve genera)
    of water temperature than the mussel Mytilus edulis and the clam Mya arenaria. Bivalve molluscs tend to accumulate in their tissues any pollutants found...
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    Thracia is a genus of bivalve mollusc in the family Thraciidae. The name is dated by Sherborn from Sowerby's "Mineral conchology of Great Britain" (1823:...
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    Jurassic (section Bivalves)
    Triassic Period 201.4 million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 145 Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period...
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