Hippurites atheniensis
| Hippurites atheniensis Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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| Specimen of Hippurites atheniensis from Greece | |
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| Species: | H. atheniensis
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| Hippurites atheniensis Ktenas 1907
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Hippurites atheniensis is an extinct species of fossil saltwater clam, a marinel bivalve mollusk in the family Hippuritidae. These fossils occur in the Late Cretaceous deposits of Greece, Serbia, Dalmatia, Istria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Italy.
References
- Global Names Index
- Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
- R. Cestaria - 1995 - [1] Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas
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