Nikitin YU.G., Lutaenko K.A., Sayenko E.M.
Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 2023; (27): 41-55
Shells of mollusks found at the Maryanovskoye settlement (walled city) of the early medieval Bohai Kingdom are described. A few shell fragments of two scallop species (family Pectinidae) - Mizuhopecten yessoensis (Jay, 1857) and Chlamys ( Swiftopecten ) swiftii (Bernardi, 1858) - were found as the only marine mollusks. The use of marine mollusk' shells as decorations or for ritual purposes is supposed. Among freshwater mollusks, gastropod shells of Amuropaludina chloantha (Bourguignat, 1860) (family Amuropaludinidae) are recorded, in addition to previously found remains of bivalve pearl mussel Dahurinana dahurica (Middendorff, 1850) (Margaritiferidae).
