{"id":4684,"date":"2014-01-11T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/?page_id=4684"},"modified":"2015-03-09T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:51:02","slug":"malletiidae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/bivalvia\/nuculoida\/malletiidae\/","title":{"rendered":"Malletiidae"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<div style=\"height: 250px;\" align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border-right: 20px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/malletiidae-nuculites-250-white.png?w=605&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 500px; border-left: 50px;\">\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Classification<\/strong><br \/>\nPhylum: <a title=\"Mollusca\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/\">Mollusca<\/a><br \/>\nClass: <a title=\"Bivalvia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/bivalvia\/\">Bivalvia<\/a><br \/>\nOrder: <a title=\"Nuculoida\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/bivalvia\/nuculoida\/\">Nuculoida<\/a><br \/>\nFamily: Malletiidae (Adams &#038; Adams, 1858)<br \/>\nCincinnatian Genera: <em><a title=\"Nuculites\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/bivalvia\/nuculoida\/malletiidae\/nuculites\/\">Nuculites<\/a><\/em>  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Geologic Range<\/strong><br \/>\nOrdovician &#8211; Recent<\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Paleoecology<\/strong><br \/>\nMalletiidae is an extant family of faculatively mobile infaunal deposit feeders<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of the Family<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No resilifer<\/li>\n<li>External ligament<\/li>\n<li>Valves sometimes slightly nacreous within<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">[accordions title=&#8221;&#8221; disabled=&#8221;false&#8221; active=&#8221;1&#8243; autoheight=&#8221;false&#8221; collapsible=&#8221;true&#8221;] [accordion title=&#8221;Published Descriptions&#8221;]<br \/>\n<em>Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N, Mollusca 6(1 of 3) (1969)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No resilifer, ligament predominantly external.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Adams &#038; Adams (1858)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shell with the valves sometimes slightly nacreous within; ligament external.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/accordion] [\/accordions]<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"height: 300px; width: 800px;\" align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border-right: 15px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\">\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Nuculites<em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/bivalvia\/nuculoida\/malletiidae\/nuculites\/\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/malletiidae-nuculites-250-black.png?resize=250%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classification Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia Order: Nuculoida Family: Malletiidae (Adams &#038; Adams, 1858) Cincinnatian Genera: Nuculites Geologic Range Ordovician &#8211; Recent Common Paleoecology Malletiidae is an extant family of faculatively mobile infaunal deposit feeders Description of the Family No resilifer &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/mollusca\/bivalvia\/nuculoida\/malletiidae\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malletiidae<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4682,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4684","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T22h-1dy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11503,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4684\/revisions\/11503"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}