Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Parent taxon: Hippuritidae according to P. W. Skelton 2013
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Barrettia, Barrettiinae, Caribbea, Hippuritellinae, Hippurites, Laluzia, Orbignya, Parastroma, Pironaea, Praebarrettia, Praetorreites, Pseudovaccinites, Pseudovaccinitinae, Rhedensia, Tetracionites, Torreites, Torreitinae, Vaccinites, Whitfieldiella, Yvaniella, Batolites
Subtaxa: Hippuritella lapeirousei
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Albania (1 collection), Austria (2), Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), France (7), Greece (6), Hungary (1), Italy (11), Jamaica (2), the Netherlands (1), Romania (2), Serbia and Montenegro (7), Slovenia (2), Somalia (2), Spain (43), Turkey (7)
Total: 96 collections including 156 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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