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Caprotinidae GRAY
1848
(presently
comprising unrelated para- and polphelytic taxa)
genera assigned to the family
(link to taxonomic database)
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Sellaea sp.; Albian, Sinai, Egypt. Natural transverse section of left
(upper) valve. |
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Himeraelites sp., Lower Aptian, Italy. Left
(upper) valve to the left; right (lower) valve to the right. 1, anterior
tooth;1' anterior socket; 2, central tooth;2' central socket;3 and 3', posterior
tooth and socket, respectively; ma, anterior myophore;mp, posterior myophore.
Photograph by P. Skelton |
Himeraelites;
height of lower valve c. 6 cm; Barremian-Lower Aptian, Italy (from Cestari & Sartorio 1995) |
Glossomyophorus costatus Masse et al., 1984; height of shell c. 10 cm; Lower Aptian, Friuli,
Italy (from Cestari & Sartorio 1995) |
Agriopleura? darderi (Astre,
1933), transverse sections across lower valves; Albian, Sinai, Egypt |
Myocardinal arrangement of Caprotina (from Skelton
1978) |
Abundance and stratigraphical
distribution of Hippuritidae in the central-eastern Mediterranean and Middle
East |
Caprotinidae |
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Family
uncertain |