Requienia (bivalve)
| Requienia | |
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| Requienia ammonia from Cretaceous of France | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | †Hippuritida |
| Family: | †Requieniidae |
| Genus: | †Requienia Zakhera, 2011 |
Requienia is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clam, a marine bivalve molluscs in the order Hippuritida, family Requieniidae. These rudists lived in the Cretaceous period, from the Valanginian age (136.4–140.2) to the Campanian age (70.6–83.5 mya). They were stationary intermediate-level suspension feeders.
Distribution
This genus occurs in the Cretaceous of Albania (collection), Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Mexico, Oman, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela; Jurassic of Hungary.
Species
- Requienia ammonia
- Requienia migliorinii
- Requienia renevieri
References
External links
- Universal Biological Indexer
- Organism names
- Paleobiology Database
- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
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Categories:
- Hippuritida
- Prehistoric bivalve genera
- Valanginian genus first appearances
- Campanian genus extinctions
- Cretaceous animals of Asia
- Fossils of Iraq
- Fossils of Oman
- Fossils of Turkey
- Cretaceous molluscs of Europe
- Fossils of Albania
- Fossils of Croatia
- Fossils of France
- Fossils of Germany
- Fossils of Hungary
- Fossils of Italy
- Fossils of Portugal
- Fossils of Spain
- Fossils of Switzerland
- Fossils of Ukraine
- Fossils of Serbia
- Cretaceous animals of North America
- Fossils of Mexico
- Fossils of the United States
- Cretaceous animals of South America
- Fossils of Venezuela
- Fossil taxa described in 2011
- Prehistoric bivalve stubs