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Caprotinidae GRAY 1848

(presently comprising unrelated para- and polphelytic taxa)

genera assigned to the family (link to taxonomic database)


New caprotinid taxon; lower Aptian, Saudi Arabia (photograph by P. Skelton)

Monopleura sp.; Upper Barremian, Huqf, Oman

Sellaea sp.; Albian, Sinai, Egypt. Natural transverse section of left (upper) valve.

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

 

Antillocaprinidae

Caprinidae

Caprotinidae

Diceratidae

Dictyoptychidae

Hippuritidae

Ichthyosarcolitidae

Plagioptychidae

Polyconitidae

Radiolitidae

Requieniidae

Family uncertain