Diceras Temporal range: From
Jurassic to
Cretaceous,
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Fossil Diceras angulatum from Jurassic at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée, Paris | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | † Hippuritida |
Suborder: | † Hippuritidina |
Superfamily: | † Radiolitoidea |
Family: | † Diceratidae |
Genus: | †
Diceras Lamarck, 1805 |
Species | |
See text. |
Diceras is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clams, marine heterodont bivalve molluscs. These bivalves were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.
Species within the genus Diceras:
Fossils of species belonging to this genus have been found in the Cretaceous of France and in the Jurassic of Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Morocco, Poland, Romania and Slovenia.
Diceras Temporal range: From
Jurassic to
Cretaceous,
| |
---|---|
Fossil Diceras angulatum from Jurassic at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée, Paris | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | † Hippuritida |
Suborder: | † Hippuritidina |
Superfamily: | † Radiolitoidea |
Family: | † Diceratidae |
Genus: | †
Diceras Lamarck, 1805 |
Species | |
See text. |
Diceras is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clams, marine heterodont bivalve molluscs. These bivalves were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.
Species within the genus Diceras:
Fossils of species belonging to this genus have been found in the Cretaceous of France and in the Jurassic of Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Morocco, Poland, Romania and Slovenia.