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Table 1 List of occurrences of fossilized soft tissues in bivalves (modified after Klug et al., 2005)

From: Phosphatized adductor muscle remains in a Cenomanian limid bivalve from Villers-sur-Mer (France)

Age

Lithostratigraphy

Locality

Taxon

Soft-tissue

References

Middle Triassic (Anisian, Ladinian)

Muschelkalk

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Myophoria, Neoschizodus

Mantle + adductor musculature, in- and excurrent siphons, blood vessels

Klug et al., 2005

Early Jurassic (early Pliensbachian)

 

Between Chipping Campden and Mickleton, Gloucestershire, UK

Nuculana (Dacryomya) gaveyi

Internal mould of intestine

Gavey, 1853; Cox, 1960

Middle Jurassic (Bajocian)

Wedelsandstein Fm

Aubach near Aselfingen, Germany

Pholadomya fidicula

Siphon

Mehl & Rehfeld-Kiefer, 1992

Late Jurassic (middle Oxfordian)

Upper Oxford Clay

Boarstall/Oxfordshire, New Farm/Oakley, England

Gryphaea (Bilobissa) dilatata

Adductores

Harper & Todd (1996)

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

Kimmeridge Clay Fm

South Ferriby, Lincolnshire, England

Bivalvia

Byssus

Todd and Palmer, 2002

Late Jurassic (Portlandian/Tithonian)

Portland beds

Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, England

Laevitrigonia gibbosa

In- and excurrent siphons, adductors, pallial ridge, gills/demibranchs, musculature, intestine

De la Beche, 1848, 1849; Mantell, 1843; Whyte et al., 1984; Spamer & Bogan, 1989; Whyte, 1992; Wilby & Whyte, 1995; Torrens et al., 2000

Late Cretaceous (early Cenomanian)

 

Villers-sur-Mer, France

Acesta clypeiformis

Bases of the posterior adductor muscle

This paper

Late Cretaceous (Coniacian to Campanian)

Niobrara Chalk, Smoky Hill Chalk Mb

Kansas, USA

Bivalvia

Musculature

Stewart, 1990

Late Cretaceous (Turonian, Santonian)

Grupo Bauru

São Paulo, Brazil

Bivalvia

Labial palps, demibranchs, musculature

Lopes de Simone & Mezzalira, 1993

Oligocene/Miocene

Pysht Fm

Merrick’s Bay, Washington State, USA

Xylophagaines and teredinid bivalves

Intestine, caecum

Kiel et al., 2012

Pleistocene

 

Oga Peninsula, Akita Prefecture, Japan

Glycymeris yessoensis

Internal mould of intestine

Chiba et al., 2014