Scaphopoda / skæˈfɒpədə / (plural scaphopods / ˈskæfəpɒdz /, from Ancient Greek σκᾰ́φης skáphē "boat" and πούς poús "foot"), whose members are also known as tusk shells or tooth …

From Ancient Greek σκάφη (skáphē, “boat”) + πούς (poús, “foot”). Scaphopoda. A taxonomic class within the phylum Mollusca – tusk shells. Scaphopoda on Wikipedia. Scaphopoda on …

2020年8月18日 · The oldest fossil fully accepted records of scaphopods have been found in the late Devonian era 360 MYA. However some scientists consider Rhytiodentalium …

Although the phylogenetic position of Scaphopoda has been long contentious, our whole genome-based phylogenomic analyses consistently place Scaphopoda as the sister taxon of Bivalvia, …

2002年1月1日 · The Scaphopoda are marine infaunal carnivores that feed on foraminiferans and other microorganisms selected and manipulated by their unique feeding tentacles or …

The Scaphopoda, a small but distinct class of the Mollusca, range with certainty back in time to the Early Devonian; but their origins in the early Paleozoic still remain an unsolved problem.

It describes the main features of scaphopods including their shell, mantle and mantle cavity, feeding habits, digestive tract, and nervous system. It provides a brief account of the history of …

2009年4月23日 · Scaphopod fossils have been described from the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian, but many of these specimens have been reclassiAed as belonging to other groups. …

This annotated catalogue of Recent and fossil supraspecific names of the mol-luscan class Scaphopoda contains 15 class- and ordinal-level names, 33 fami-ly-level names, 114 genus …

The name Scaphopoda is commonly interpreted as ‘shovel-footed’, a reference to the morphology of the foot of the animals. Some of the disagreement regarding conchiferan phylogeny …