A species of mollusk unknown until now once inhabited Central Siberia.
This was reported by paleontologists from the A.A. Trofimuk Institute of Oil and Gas Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who found fossils of bivalve mollusks of the genus Lopatinia in the middle reaches of the Anabar River.
These ancient inhabitants of the earth lived in the seas and fed on organic matter from the sea floor.
The discovered specimens allowed for the study of all morphological features, including the structure of the operculum, as well as intrapopulation variability. It turned out that the fossils found are the remains of the most ancient mollusks ever to inhabit Siberia.
They differ from other species in the shape of their shells and the absence of radial sculpture, as well as in the characteristics of their operculum.
Earlier, experts talked about the history of the object, built at the beginning of the 3rd century BC during the reign of Antiochus I.