Cladoceramus
| Cladoceramus Temporal range: Santonian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pteriida |
| Family: | †Inoceramidae |
| Genus: | †Cladoceramus Seitz 1961 |
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Cladoceramus is an extinct genus of fossil marine pteriomorphian bivalves that superficially resembled the related winged pearly oysters of the extant genus Pteria. They lived in the Santonian stage of the Late Cretaceous.
Biostratigraphic significance
The first appearance of the species Cladoceramus undulatoplicatus marks the beginning of the Santonian stage.
Distribution
Fossils of the genus have been found in:[1]
- Matulla Formation, Egypt
- United States
- Forbes Shale, California
- Smoky Hill Shale, Niobrara Formation, Colorado and New Mexico
- Austin Chalk, Texas
- Mancos Shale, Wyoming
References
- ^ Cladoceramus at Fossilworks.org
Categories:
- Inoceramidae
- Prehistoric bivalve genera
- Index fossils
- Santonian life
- Fossils of Egypt
- Cretaceous California
- Paleontology in California
- Cretaceous Colorado
- Paleontology in Colorado
- Cretaceous geology of New Mexico
- Paleontology in New Mexico
- Cretaceous Texas
- Paleontology in Texas
- Paleontology in Wyoming
- Fossils of the United States
- Fossil taxa described in 1961