Teredina
Extinct genus of bivalves / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Teredina is an extinct genus of fossil bivalve mollusc that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the late Pliocene in Asia, Europe, and North America.[2]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Myida |
Family: | Teredinidae |
Genus: | †Teredina Lamarck, 1818 |
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Teredina shells consist of 2 short, hooked valves with a pair of furrows and each valve with transverse ridges.[3] The overall body was long and clud-shaped. Teredina used the ridges on each valve to bore into driftwood by rocking back and forth; its long body shape allowed for large intestines for it to carry bacteria capable of breaking down the cellulose in the wood.[3] Petrified drift wood with Teridina burrows can be found in the Cretaceous rocks of Vancouver Island.[3]