Ramonalinidae

Ramonalinidae; Temporal range: Anisian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Ramonalina ramanensis (Triassic, southern Israel)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pteriida
Superfamily:	†Ambonychioidea
Family:	†Ramonalinidae; Yancey et al. 2009
Genera
	See text

Ramonalinidae is an extinct family of marine bivalve molluscs 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.

Taxonomy

Ramonalina is thus far the only known genus.

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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[1] A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca)

[Yancey2009-2] 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.

Ramonalinidae Temporal range: Anisian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Ramonalina ramanensis (Triassic, southern Israel)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pteriida
Superfamily:	†Ambonychioidea
Family:	†Ramonalinidae Yancey et al. 2009
Genera
See text