''Gervillia'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric
bivalves
Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed by a calcified exoskeleton consis ...
belonging to the family
Bakevelliidae
Bakevelliidae is an extinct family (biology), family of prehistoric bivalves that lived from the Late Mississippian age, Mississippian until the Middle Eocene. .
Fossil records
This genus is known in the fossil record from the
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous ( ) is a Geologic time scale, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the ...
period to the
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes ...
period (from about 313.8 to 37.2 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found in marine sediments all over the world.
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Species
Species within this genus include:[
* † ''Gervillia alaeformis'' Sowerby 1819
* † ''Gervillia alatior'' Imlay 1940
* † ''Gervillia angulata'' Münster 1841
* † ''Gervillia angusta'' Munster 1838
* † ''Gervillia cholla'' Stoyanow 1949
* † ''Gervillia dissita'' White 1887
* † ''Gervillia galcazzi'' Stoppani 1863
* † ''Gervillia heinemani'' Stoyanow 1949
* † ''Gervillia inflata'' Schafhautl
* † ''Gervillia iraonensis'' Newton 1895
* † ''Gervillia lanpingensis'' Chen 1976
* † ''Gervillia longa'' Geinitz 1867
* † ''Gervillia metaforbesian''a Amano and Matsumoto 1956
* † ''Gervillia quadrata'' Chen 1976
* † ''Gervillia rasori ''Stoyanow 1949
* † ''Gervillia regoi'' Maury 1936
* † ''Gervillia sergipensis''Mello et al. 2007
* † ''Gervillia simbaiana'' Skwarko 1967
* † ''Gervillia solenoidea'' Defrance 1820
* † ''Gervillia ussurica'' Kiparisova 1938
* † ''Gervillia yunnanensis'' Chen 1976
]
References
* LHC DE MELLO - 200
A NEW SPECIES OF GERVILLIA DEFRANCE (BIVALVIA, BAKEVELLIIDAE) FROM THE APTIAN-ALBIAN TRANSITION OF SERGIPE, BRAZIL
Prehistoric bivalve genera
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