MALACOSHARE Sartori Harper 2009 Unusual Preservation in Pholadomyid bivalves Lethaia外语英文电子书.pdfVIP

Sticky bivalves from the Mesozoic: clues to the origin of the anomalodesmatan arenophilic system ´ ANDRE F. SARTORI AND ELIZABETH M. HARPER Sartori, A.F. Harper, E.M. 2009: Sticky bivalves from the Mesozoic: clues to the origin of the anomalodesmatan arenophilic system. Lethaia, Vol. 42, pp. 486–494. Arenophilic glands represent the only molluscan example of multicellular organs solely concerned with adhesion of foreign particles to the external surfaces of an organism. The glands are exclusive to the bivalve clade Anomalodesmata, but do not occur in all component taxa, having been declared absent in a number of families, including Pho- ladomyidae. This paper records and describes for the first time the arenophilic appara- tus of Pholadomya candida G. B. Sowerby I, 1823, and demonstrates that secretion from these glands is at times preserved in the fossil record. In P. candida, arenophilic glands in the middle mantle folds discharge their products on top of the shell as the animal grows, forming radial lines of secretion that comprise a meandering main strand and numerous thin threads projecting in tufts. The arrangement is similar to th