{"id":19389,"date":"2019-12-02T09:48:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/?page_id=19389"},"modified":"2021-08-20T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T11:58:36","slug":"bivalves","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/discovering-geology\/fossils-and-geological-time\/bivalves\/","title":{"rendered":"Bivalves"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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‘Bull\u2019s heart’ (left); the bivalve Protocardia<\/em> (right). Illustrated by Robert Plot. Courtesy of the National Museum of Wales, Department of Geology .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Many of the fossils in the BGS palaeontology collections<\/a> are available to view and download as 3D models. To view this fossil, or others like it, in 3D visit GB3D Type Fossils<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Woods, M A. 1999. Bivalves: fossil focus. (Nottingham, UK: British Geological Survey.)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t

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