Hippurites cornuvaccinum Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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Specimen of Hippurites cornuvaccinum from Greece | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | †Hippuritida |
Family: | †Hippuritidae |
Genus: | †Hippurites |
Species: | †H. cornuvaccinum |
Binomial name | |
†Hippurites cornuvaccinum Bronn, 1831 |
Hippurites cornuvaccinum is a fossil saltwater clam, an extinct marine bivalve mollusk in the family Hippuritidae. These fossils occur in the Late Cretaceous deposits of southern Europe.
References
- Global Names Index
- Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
- Zipcodezoo
- Europeana
- Henry Wood Palaeontology Invertebrate
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