Ramonalinidae
| Ramonalinidae Temporal range: Triassic | |
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| Ramonalina ramanensis (Triassic, southern Israel) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Myalinida[1] |
| Superfamily: | Ambonychioidea |
| Family: | Ramonalinidae Yancey et al. 2009 |
| Genera | |
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Ramonalinidae is an extinct family of marine bivalve mollusks from the late Anisian (early Middle Triassic). It was an edgewise-recliner with a flattened anteroventral surface (on which it rested) and partially fused valves. They formed distinctive mud mounds.[2]
Taxonomy
- Ramonalina is thus far the only known genus.[2]
References
- ↑ A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca)
- 1 2 Yancey, T.E.; Wilson, M.A.; Mione, A.C.S. (2009). "The Ramonalinids: a new family of mound-building bivalves of the Early Middle Triassic". Palaeontology. 52 (6): 1349–1361. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00908.x.
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