Inoceramidae
| Inoceramidae | |
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| Inoceramus from the Cretaceous of South Dakota | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pteriida |
| Superfamily: | † |
| Family: | †Inoceramidae |
The Inoceramidae are an extinct family of bivalves ("clams") in the Class Mollusca. Fossils of inoceramids are found in marine sediments of Permian to latest Cretaceous in age. Inoceramids tended to live in upper bathyal and neritic environments.[1]
Taxonomy[]
Inoceramidae Giebel 1852
- Genus Actinoceramus Meek, 1864 (Synonym = Birostrina De Luc & Sowerby, 1821)
- Genus Eichwald, 1861
- Genus Polubotko, 1992
- Genus Cox, 1969
- Genus Cladoceramus Seitz, 1961
- Genus Cremnoceramus Heinz, 1932
- Genus Whitfield, 1877
- Genus Inoceramus Sowerby, 1814
- Subgenus Inoceramus (Cordiceramus) (Heinz, 1932)
- Subgenus Inoceramus (Inoceramus) Sowerby, 1814
- Subgenus Inoceramus (Sphenoceramus) (Böhm, 1915)
- Genus Heinz, 1932
- Genus Brongniart, 1822
- Genus Pokhialainen, 1972
- Genus Ihering, 1902
- Genus Voronetz, 1936
- Genus Platyceramus Heinz, 1932
- Genus Koschelkina, 1963
- Genus Koschelkina, 1958
- Genus Cox, 1969
- Genus Sornay, 1980
- Genus Heinz, 1932
- Genus Volviceramus Stoliczka, 1871
Footnotes[]
- ^ "Paleoecologic Context", Pasch and May (2001); pages 224–225.
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- Inoceramidae
- Prehistoric bivalve families
- Permian first appearances
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- Norian taxonomic families
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- Pliensbachian taxonomic families
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- Albian taxonomic families
- Cenomanian taxonomic families
- Turonian taxonomic families
- Coniacian taxonomic families
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- Campanian taxonomic families
- Maastrichtian taxonomic families
- Late Cretaceous extinctions
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