Radiolitidae

Radiolitidae
Temporal range: Jurassic - Cretaceous
Fossil of Radiolites species
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: †Hippuritida
Suborder: †Hippuritidina
Superfamily: †Radiolitoidea
Family: †Radiolitidae
Gray, 1848
Synonyms
  • Chiapasellidae Alencaster 1971
  • Duraniidae Yanin 1989
  • Osculigeridae Yanin 1989

Radiolitidae is a family of rudists in the order Hippuritida.

Fossil record

These rudists lived between the Jurassic and the Cretaceous (age range: 130.0 to 66.043 million years ago).

Genera

Genera within this family include:

References

  1. ↑ Gray, J.E. 1848. On the arrangement of the Brachiopoda. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2(12):435-440
  2. 1 2 Fossilworks