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Caprinidae D'ORBIGNY 1847

genera assigned to the family (link to taxonomic database)

Caprinula sp., note canals in left (upper) and right (lower) valve; from d'Orbigny (1850c)

Caprina schiosensis Boehm, 1892; height of image is c. 20 cm; Cenomanian, NE Italy (from Cestari & Sartorio 1995)

Transverse section across left valve of Caprinula distefanoi Boehm, 1897; Cenomanian, Greece

Natural transverse section across left valve of Neocaprina sp.; Albian of Rizan Aneiza, Sinai, Egypt

Myocardinal arrangement of a primitive caprinid (Pachytraga); from Skelton (1978)

Abundance and stratigraphical distribution of Caprinidae in the central-eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

 

Antillocaprinidae

Caprinidae

Caprotinidae

Diceratidae

Dictyoptychidae

Hippuritidae

Ichthyosarcolitidae

Plagioptychidae

Polyconitidae

Radiolitidae

Requieniidae

Family uncertain