期刊
PALAEONTOLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT
卷 84, 期 4, 页码 457-465出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12542-010-0060-2
关键词
Nautilus shell; Nacreous tablets; Crystalline structure; Nucleation
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The nacreous tablets in the Nautilus shell have similar crystalline structure as the tablets in the gastropod Gibbula shell. Etching with Mutvei's solution reveals that each tablet is composed of vertical crystalline columns that are structurally similar to the acicular crystallites in the outer spherulitic-prismatic layer of the shell wall. The columns are attached to each other to form numerous vertical crystalline lamellae, oriented parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tablet. It is still unknown whether or not the orientation of the vertical lamellae corresponds to that of the crystallographic a- or b-axis. The orientation of the crystalline lamellae in the adjacent tablets is parallel in some nacreous laminae, but random in other laminae. Similar large variation was found in the nacreous tablets of the gastropod and bivalve shells. The nucleation sites of the nacreous tablets are predominantly situated on the peripheral portion of the upper surface of the preceding tablet, both in the shell wall and septa. The aragonite-nucleating proteins in the central portion of the crystal imprints of the organic interlamellar sheets, described by several writers, have therefore a negative correlation with the nucleation sites of the nacreous tablets.
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