Hippurites
Appearance
Hippurites Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Hippurites sp. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | †Hippuritida |
Family: | †Hippuritidae |
Genus: | †Hippurites Lamarck 1801 |
Hippurites is an extinct genus of rudist bivalve mollusc from the Late Cretaceous of Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.
Species
[edit]- Hippurites atheniensis Ktenas 1907
- Hippurites colliciatus Woodward 1855
- Hippurites cornucopiae Defrance 1821
- Hippurites cornuvaccinum Brown
References
[edit]- Hippurites in the Paleobiology Database
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 112)
- Global Names Index
- Sepkoski's Online Genus Database