%0 Journal Article
%T Taxonomic position and phylogenetic relationships of the bivalve Goniophorina Isberg, 1934, and related genera from the early Ordovician of northwestern Argentina
%A S¨˘nchez
%A Teresa M.
%J Ameghiniana
%D 2006
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X on the basis of collections from tremadoc and arenig successions of northwestern argentina, the affinities of goniophorina isberg, 1934, are reassessed. studied material includes ucumariids, lipanellids, goniophorina , and other specimens for which the new genus lossella is proposed with the new species l . juancruzi sp. nov. as type species. goniophorina and lossella are grouped in the new family goniophorinidae. synapomorphies of goniophorinids, ucumariids, and lipanellids lead to the conclusion that goniophorina integrates a major group of edentulous bivalves, a lineage of which -the ucumariidsprobably gave rise to anomalodesmata. this fauna represents a rapid, local diversification event that is part of the west-gondwanan bivalve radiation during the early ordovician.
%K goniophorinids
%K early ordovician
%K northwestern argentina.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0002-70142006000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en