''Radiolites'' is a genus of
rudists in the family
Radiolitidae.
Fossil record
These rudists lived in the
Cretaceous from the upper
Albian to the upper
Maastrichtian ages (age range: 112.6 to 66.043 million years ago).
[Sepkoski's Online Genus Database]
/ref> The fossils were found in Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and United States.[
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Species
Species within this genus include:[Paleobiology Database]
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* † ''Radiolites acutocostata'' Adkins 1930
* † ''Radiolites angeoides'' (Delapeirouse)
* † ''Radiolites carsicus'' Caffau et al. 1995
* † ''Radiolites dario'' Catullo 1834
* † ''Radiolites macroplicatus'' Whitfield 1987
* † ''Radiolites praegalloprovincialis'' Toucas 1908
* † ''Radiolites spongicola'' Astre 1954
References
External links
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Molluscs described in 1801
Fossils of Serbia
Prehistoric bivalve genera
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