Hippurites cornuvaccinum
| Hippurites cornuvaccinums Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Specimen of Hippurites cornuvaccinum from Greece | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Order: | Hippuritoida |
| Superfamily: | Hippuritacea |
| Family: | Hippuritidae |
| Genus: | Hippurites |
| Species: | H. cornuvaccinum |
| Binomial name | |
| Hippurites cornuvaccinum Bronn 1831 | |
Hippurites cornuvaccinum is a fossil saltwater clam, an extinct marine bivalve mollusk in the family Hippuritidae. These fossils occur in the Late Cretaceous deposits of southern Europe.
References
- Global Names Index
- Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
- Zipcodezoo
- Europeana
- Henry Wood Palaeontology Invertebrate
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