paleonet Paleonet Posidonia

[John Shelley Hampton <john.hampton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A number of bivalve species from the European Lower Carboniferous are still
regarded as members of the genus Posidonia, for example P. becheri and P.
corrugata.  It is probable that other Carboniferous forms are still referred to
the genus but I am not familiar with the Asian Carboniferous fauna.  A mention
of Siamese Carboniferous Posidionia siltstones appears (p. 96) in H. Muir-Wood
('Malayan Lower Carboniferous Fossils and their bearing on the Visean
Palaeogeography of Asia' [British Museum (Natural History): London (1958)] but
no details are given, and no members of the genus are descibed in her
monograph.

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