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2016 in molluscan paleontology

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This list, 2016 in molluscan paleontology, is a list of new taxa of ammonites and other fossil cephalopods, as well as fossil gastropods, bivalves and other molluscs that have been described during the year 2016.

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  • A description of the external characters and internal structures of a well-preserved specimen of Proteroctopus ribeti from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Lagerstätte of La-Voulte-sur-Rhône (France) and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Kruta et al. (2016).

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  • An unnamed species of Heliconoides is described by Janssen & Goedert (2016) based on a single specimen from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of the San Juan Islands (Washington, United States).

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  • Fossil pearls attached to the shells of members of the genus Anodonta are described from the Pleistocene Nihewan Formation (China) by Li et al. (2016).

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