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  2. Bivalvia - Wikipedia

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    The largest known extinct bivalve is a species of Platyceramus whose fossils measure up to 3,000 mm (118 in) in length. [ 64 ] In his 2010 treatise, Compendium of Bivalves , Markus Huber gives the total number of living bivalve species as about 9,200 combined in 106 families. [ 65 ]

  3. Tuarangia - Wikipedia

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    Tuarangia is a Cambrian shelly fossil interpreted as an early bivalve, [1] though alternative classifications have been proposed and its systematic position remains controversial. [2] It is the only genus in the extinct family Tuarangiidae [ 3 ] and order Tuarangiida . [ 1 ]

  4. Agerostrea - Wikipedia

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    Agerostrea is an extinct genus of fossil oysters, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Ostreidae, the true oysters. It is present in the Maastrichtian , the upper stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch, from 72.1 to 66 million years ago.

  5. Gryphaea - Wikipedia

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    Gryphaea, one of the genera known as devil's toenails, is a genus of extinct oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Gryphaeidae. These fossils range from the Triassic period to the middle Paleogene period [citation needed], but are mostly restricted to the Triassic and Jurassic. They are particularly common in many parts of Britain.

  6. Panopea (bivalve) - Wikipedia

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    The fossil record of the genus dates back to the Cretaceous (and maybe the Triassic) (age range: 242.0 to 0.012 million years ago). These fossils have been found all over the world. These fossils have been found all over the world.

  7. Glossus (bivalve) - Wikipedia

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    All species of this genus, including the remaining extant species, G. humanus, are found in the fossil record from the Cretaceous to the Pliocene (age range: from 99.7 to 2.588 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata of Eastern North America, Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific. [2] Fossil shell of Glossus humanus from Pliocene of Italy

  8. Rudists - Wikipedia

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    Rudist bivalve, Maurens Formation, Upper Cretaceous, southwestern France. Rudists are a group of extinct box-, tube- or ring-shaped marine heterodont bivalves belonging to the order Hippuritida that arose during the Late Jurassic and became so diverse during the Cretaceous that they were major reef-building organisms in the Tethys Ocean, until their complete extinction at the close of the ...

  9. Camya - Wikipedia

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    Camya is an extinct genus of early bivalve [1] and is the only genus in the extinct family Camyidae. [2] The genus is known solely from early Middle Cambrian fossils found in Europe. [2] The genus currently contains a solitary accepted species, Camya asy. [2]