Biomineralized skeletons are widespread in animals, and their origins can be traced to the
latest Ediacaran or early Cambrian fossil record, in virtually all animal groups. The origin of …

The Cambrian diversification of animals was long thought to have begun with an explosive
phase at the start of the Tommotian Age. Recent stratigraphic discoveries, however, suggest …

ABSTRACT 2,604 names at the rank of subtribe, tribe, subfamily, family and superfamily
have been proposed for Recent and fossil gastropods, and another 35 for …

Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

Crystallization by particle attachment (CPA) of amorphous precursors has been
demonstrated in modern biomineralized skeletons across a broad phylogenetic range of …

Assemblages of mineralized skeletal fossils are described from limestone rocks of the lower
Cambrian Nemakit-Daldyn, Medvezhya, Kugda-Yuryakh, Manykay, and lower Emyaksin …

A longstanding question in paleontology has been the influence of calcite and aragonite
seas on the evolution of carbonate skeletons. An earlier study based on 21 taxa that evolved …

Mytilus is an economically important bivalve and its shell is a biomineralized tissue with
various microstructures/layers. In the present study, the shell of marine mussel, Mytilus …

An assemblage of mineralised skeletal fossils containing molluscs, hyoliths, halkieriids,
chancelloriids, tommotiids, lobopodians, paleoscolecids, bradoriids, echinoderms …

The formation of the molluscan shell nacre is regulated to a large extent by a matrix of
extracellular macromolecules that are secreted by the shell-forming tissue, the mantle. This …