Biology:Hippurites cornuvaccinum
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Short description: Extinct species of bivalve
Hippurites cornuvaccinum Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Specimen of Hippurites cornuvaccinum from Greece | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | †Hippuritida |
Family: | †Hippuritidae |
Genus: | †Hippurites |
Species: | †H. cornuvaccinum
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Binomial name | |
†Hippurites cornuvaccinum Bronn, 1831
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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
Wikidata ☰ Q16983193 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippurites cornuvaccinum.
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