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Palaeontological presence of nacre. The number (a) and percentage (b) of families of bivalves employing nacre in different geological periods. Approximately two-thirds of the nacre data come from Carter (1990). Other data are from personal communications (E. M. Harper 2006) and our own work. The temporal distribution of the bivalve families is from Skelton & Benton (1993).
