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Rudist formations

 

Biostrome of hippuritid rudists at Montagne des Cornes; Santonian, Pyrenees, France

Biostrome with Monopleura marcida White, 1884; Albian, Viotía, Greece

Bouquet of Durania cornupastoris (Des Moulins, 1826) at Abu Roash, Western Desert near Gizah, Egypt

Eoradiolites liratus (Conrad, 1852); few shells in life position within coarse-grained debris of other shells; Cenomanian, Sinai, Egypt

Biostrome of Vaccinites vesiculosus (Woodward, 1855); Campanian of Saiwan, Oman (from Schumann & Steuber 1997)

Hillslope below biostrome of Vaccinites vesiculosus (Woodward, 1855), covered by rudist shells; Campanian of Saiwan, Oman

Association of Vaccinites, Torreites, corals and stromatoporoids; Campanian of Saiwan (from Schumann & Steuber 1997)

Biostrome with caprinid rudists, Lower Aptian; Michoacán, Mexico

Bedding-plane view of biostrome of Agriopleura? darderi (Astre, 1933); Albian, Sinai, Egypt

Titanosarcolites giganteus (Whitfield, 1897) in recumbent life position; Maastrichtian, Jamaica

 

 

Monographs of rudist bivalves

 

The following list indicates selected publications which may help to identify rudists collected in certain regions. References were selected according to accessibility, and content of figures and descriptions, preferably covering a wide range of rudist taxa.

Arabian Peninsula:

Morris & Skelton (1995), Skelton & Masse (2000)

Balkans:

Pamouktchiev (1981c), various monographs by Milovanović, Sladić-Trifunović

Caribbean:

Chubb (1971), Mac Gillavry (1937)

France, Spain:

The classical monographs of Douvillé (1891b, 1892a, 1893a, 1894, 1895, 1897a) and Toucas (1903a, 1904a, 1907, 1908a, 1909a) are still important references, also for other regions of the Mediterranean region, and the Alpine Gosau Basins; Astre (1954), Bilotte (1984, 1985a), Masse (1996), Masse et al. (1998c), Pons (1977), Vicens (1992a)

Greece:

Steuber (1999a)

Italy and the periadriatic region:

Cestari & Sartorio (1995), Polšak (1967b), various monographs by Parona, Pleničar, and Slišković

North Africa and Near East:

Douvillé (1910a), for Algeria, see papers by Chikhi-Aouimeur

Turkey:

Özer (1983), Özer (1986), and various monographs by Karacabey and Özer

U.S. Gulf Coast and Mexico:

various monographs by Alencáster, Coogan (1973), Coogan (1977), Palmer (1928), Scott (1990)

 


Catalogue of localities


Click on a name of a country in the table below to obtain a list of rudist localities. Species which have been reported from localities are listed together with stratigraphical and geographical information (links to taxonomic data base). More or less precise long.-lat. data exist for most localities and are available from the author upon request. I would be grateful about information on localities listed under '?' which I could not locate.

Afghanistan

Hungary

Portugal

Albania

India and Nepal

Romania

Algeria

Indonesia

Russia

Armenia

Iran

Saudi Arabia

Austria

Iraq

Slovac Republic

Azerbaidjan

Israel

Slovenia

Belgium

Italy

Somalia

Belize

Jamaica

Spain

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Japan

Sweden

Bulgaria

Jordan

Switzerland

Canada

Kazakh

Syria

Chile

Kirgistan

Tajikistan

China

Lebanon

Tansania

Croatia

Libya

Trinidad and Tobago

Cuba

Madagascar

Tunisia

Czech Republic

Makedonia

Turkmenistan

Dominican Republic

Maroc

Turkey

Egypt

Mexico

Ukraine

France

Netherlands

United Arab Emirates

Georgia

Netherlands Antilles

United Kingdom

Germany

Oman

U.S.A.

Greece

Pakistan

Venezuela

Guatemala

Peru

Yemen

Haiti

Philippines

Yugoslavia

Honduras

Poland

 

 

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