Hippuritidae GRAY 1848

genera assigned to the family (link to taxonomic database)

Vaccinites vesiculosus (Woodward, 1855), Campanian, Saiwan, Oman

Sketch of lower valve of Vaccinites showing characteristic pillars of Hippuritidae in successive ontogenetic stages; stippled = body cavity, now filled with internal sediment

Left (upper) valve of Vaccinites alpinus (Douvillé (1897), showing pores of outer shell layer (diameter of shell is c. 9 cm); Campanian, Maden-Bayburt, Turkey

Close-up of pores in other specimen of Vaccinites alpinus (Douvillé, 1897); diameter of pores is c. 1 mm; upper Santonian, Gosau, Austria

Barrettia sp.; Campanian - Maastrichtian, New World

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