It is even harder to pick 10 when you work on several disparate groups.
For almost anything:
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology

Eocene, eastern US:
Palmer and Brann, 1965-66 Bull. Am. Paleo. and references therein (of
course, there are a lot more than 10 references)
Dockery, 1977, 1980 Miss. Geol. Surv. Bull.

Pliocene, US Atlantic Coastal Plain:
L. Campbell, 1993, Va. Geol. Surv.

Modern bivalve identification:
Abbott, 1974
Lamprell and co-authors, Bivalves of Australia

Early Paleozoic bivalves:
Mostly individual monographs, notably several by Liljedahl, Cope, and
Pojeta (seperately, not co-authored)


Dr. David Campbell
"Old Seashells"
Department of Geological Sciences
CB 3315 Mitchell Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill NC 27599-3315 USA
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"He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
Gold Bug