
New caprotinid taxon; lower
Aptian, Saudi Arabia (photograph by P. Skelton)
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Monopleura sp.; Upper Barremian, Huqf, Oman
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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
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Himeraelites;
height of lower valve c. 6 cm; Barremian-Lower Aptian, Italy (from Cestari & Sartorio 1995)
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Glossomyophorus costatus Masse et al., 1984; height of shell c. 10 cm; Lower Aptian, Friuli,
Italy (from Cestari & Sartorio 1995)
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Agriopleura? darderi (Astre,
1933), transverse sections across lower valves; Albian, Sinai, Egypt
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Myocardinal arrangement of Caprotina (from Skelton
1978)
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Abundance and stratigraphical
distribution of Hippuritidae in the central-eastern Mediterranean and Middle
East
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