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Science 8 July 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3732, pp. 198 - 201
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3732.198
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Precambrian Mollusc-like Fossils from Inyo County, California

Michael E. Taylor 1

1 Department of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley

Probable molluscan fossils have been discovered in the Reed Dolomite, White-Inyo Mountain area, Inyo County, California. They consist of small orthoconic shells with relatively large bilaterally symmetrical protoconch-like initial termini. Some individuals have a ‘U-shaped" (in transverse section) internal structure. The fossils occur at least 900 meters below the strata containing the earliest known olenellid trilobites and are therefore considered Precambrian.


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