Larval Bivalve Shell Morphometry: A New Paleoclimatic Tool?
- 6 October 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 202 (4363), 51-53
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.202.4363.51
Abstract
The shells of the pelagic larvae of bivalve mollusks may be useful as paleoclimatic indicators. An inverse relationship between temperature and maximum size of larval shells within a particular population is reported for a number of Recent species. Changes in the dimensions of the prodissoconch-dissoconch boundary on juvenile specimens may reflect changes in the ambient temperature of marine environments.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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