Hippurites
Hippurites Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
---|---|
Hippurites sp. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Subclass: | Heterodonta |
Order: | Hippuritoida |
Superfamily: | Hippuritacea |
Family: | Hippuritidae |
Genus: | Hippurites Lamarck, 1801 |
Hippurites is an extinct genus of bivalve mollusk from the Late Cretaceous of Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.
Species
- Hippurites atheniensis † Ktenas 1907
- Hippurites colliciatus † Woodward 1855
- Hippurites cornucopiae † Defrance 1821
- Hippurites cornuvaccinum † Brown
References
- Hippurites in the Paleobiology Database
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 112)
- Global Names Index
- Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/20/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.