''Arhouriella'' is arguably the oldest example of a bivalve mollusc in the fossil record. Arguably because there are older contenders to this crown, and because there is not a watertight case that it ''is'' a bivalve.
The type and only species, ''Arhouriella opheodontoides'', was named and described by Gerd Geyer & Michael Streng in
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
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References
Fossil taxa described in 1998
Bivalves
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