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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: |
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Balkans: |
Pamouktchiev (1981c), various monographs by Milovanović, Sladić-Trifunović |
Caribbean: |
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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: |
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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.
Indonesia |
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Slovac Republic |
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Azerbaidjan |
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Kazakh |
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Kirgistan |
Tajikistan |
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Tansania |
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Madagascar |
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Makedonia |
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Ukraine |
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Georgia |
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Pakistan |
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Philippines |
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