First species of the genus Plaxiphora Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Paleocene of Europe-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

First species of the genus Plaxiphora Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Paleocene of Europe

Published:2024-08-19 Issue:3 Volume:328 Page:379-383
ISSN:0206-0477
Container-title:Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS
language:ru
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Author:

Sirenko B.I.¹,Dell’Angelo B.²

Affiliation:

1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Emb. 1, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia

2. Via Briscata 16/6, 16154 Genova, Italy

Abstract

The first species of the genus Plaxiphora from the Paleocene of Ukraine is described. The characteristic features of Plaxiphora luzanovkae sp. nov. are the strongly increasing size of tegmentum granules toward the edge of the valve, a large number of micraesthetes on these granules, and a random arrangement of the granules. Since the predominant occurrence of the species of the genus is in the Southern Hemisphere, with almost half found in New Zealand and Australia, it is likely that the first species of the genus originated during the final disintegration of Gondwana.

Publisher

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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