The origins of molluscs

Scratch Traces of Large Ediacara Bilaterian Animals

(2014) James G. Gehling et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Larval ecology and morphology in fossil gastropods

(2014) Alexander Nützel   PALAEONTOLOGY

TAPHONOMY OF CAMBRIAN PHOSPHATIC SMALL SHELLY FOSSILS

(2014) J. R. CREVELING et al.   PALAIOS

Metabolic dominance of bivalves predates brachiopod diversity decline by more than 150 million years

(2014) J. L. Payne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenomic analyses of deep gastropod relationships reject Orthogastropoda

(2014) F. Zapata et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Life cycle evolution: was the eumetazoan ancestor a holopelagic, planktotrophic gastraea?

(2013) Claus Nielsen   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Affinities of the alleged earliest Cambrian gastropod Aldanella

(2013) Jerzy Dzik et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

New Wiwaxia material from the Tsinghsutung Formation (Cambrian Series 2) of Eastern Guizhou, China

(2013) HAI-JING SUN et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Ontogeny, morphology and taxonomy of the soft-bodied Cambrian ‘mollusc’Wiwaxia

(2013) Martin R. Smith   PALAEONTOLOGY

Nectocaridid ecology, diversity, and affinity: early origin of a cephalopod-like body plan

(2013) Martin R. Smith   PALEOBIOLOGY

Trace fossils of precambrian metazoans “Vendobionta” and “Mollusks”

(2013) A. Yu. Ivantsov   STRATIGRAPHY AND GEOLOGICAL CORRELATION

Phylogenetic analysis of four nuclear protein-encoding genes largely corroborates the traditional classification of Bivalvia (Mollusca)

(2012) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Corrigendum: Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools

(2012) Stephen A. Smith et al.   NATURE

A Silurian armoured aplacophoran and implications for molluscan phylogeny

(2012) Mark D. Sutton et al.   NATURE

The origin of multiplacophorans - convergent evolution in Aculiferan molluscs

(2012) JAKOB VINTHER et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

A chiton without a foot

(2012) MARK D. SUTTON et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Mouthparts of the Burgess Shale fossils Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia: implications for the ancestral molluscan radula

(2012) M. R. Smith   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Living Monoplacophora: morphological conservatism or recent diversification?

(2012) Yasunori Kano et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Shallow-Water Occurrence ofWiwaxiain the Middle Cambrian of the Barrandian Area, Czech Republic

(2011) Oldřich Fatka et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules

(2011) Björn Kröger et al.   BIOESSAYS

Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization

(2011) ARTEM KOUCHINSKY et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs): A new measure of early Paleozoic paleobiology

(2011) N.J. Butterfield et al.   GEOLOGY

Is Nectocaris pteryx a cephalopod?

(2011) DAWID MAZUREK et al.   LETHAIA

Once again: is Nectocaris pteryx a stem-group cephalopod?

(2011) BRUCE RUNNEGAR   LETHAIA

Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools

(2011) Stephen A. Smith et al.   NATURE

Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships

(2011) Kevin M. Kocot et al.   NATURE

Shell microstructure of the early bivalve Pojetaia and the independent origin of nacre within the mollusca

(2011) MICHAEL J. VENDRASCO et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Paleontological evidence for the supposed precambrian occurrence of mollusks

(2011) A. Yu. Ivantsov   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

A Molecular Phylogeny of Bivalve Mollusks: Ancient Radiations and Divergences as Revealed by Mitochondrial Genes

(2011) Federico Plazzi et al.   PLoS One

A molecular palaeobiological hypothesis for the origin of aplacophoran molluscs and their derivation from chiton-like ancestors

(2011) J. Vinther et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A placozoan affinity for Dickinsonia and the evolution of late Proterozoic metazoan feeding modes

(2010) Erik A. Sperling et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change

(2010) A. C. Maloof et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Crinoids for lunch? An unexpected biotic interaction from the Upper Ordovician of Scotland

(2010) Stephen K. Donovan et al.   GEOLOGY

Assessing divergence time of Spirulida and Sepiida (Cephalopoda) based on hemocyanin sequences

(2010) Kerstin Martina Warnke et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian

(2010) Martin R. Smith et al.   NATURE

New information about Echinochiton dufoei, the Ordovician spiny chiton*

(2009) John Pojeta et al.   AMERICAN MALACOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Morphological Cladistic Analysis as a Model for Character Evaluation in Primitive Living Chitons (Polyplacophora, Lepidopleurina)*

(2009) Julia D. Sigwart   AMERICAN MALACOLOGICAL BULLETIN

A new genus and two new species of multiplacophorans (Mollusca, Polyplacophora, Neoloricata), Mississippian (Chesterian), Indiana

(2009) Stephaney S. Puchalski et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

The Devonian nekton revolution

(2009) CHRISTIAN KLUG et al.   LETHAIA

New data on the enigmaticOcruranus-Eohalobiagroup of Early Cambrian small skeletal fossils

(2009) MICHAEL J. VENDRASCO et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

THE CANAL SYSTEM IN SCLERITES OF LOWER CAMBRIANSINOSACHITES(HALKIERIIDAE: SACHITIDA): SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE MOLLUSCAN AFFINITIES OF THE SACHITIDS

(2009) JAKOB VINTHER   PALAEONTOLOGY

New reconstruction of Kimberella, problematic Vendian metazoan

(2009) A. Yu. Ivantsov   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Size of the earliest mollusks: Did small helcionellids grow to become large adults?

(2008) Mónica Martí Mus et al.   GEOLOGY

Oikozetetesfrom the early Cambrian of South Australia: implications for halkieriid affinities and functional morphology

(2008) JOHN R. PATERSON et al.   LETHAIA

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE