Requieniidae is a family of
rudists
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 organism ...
, in the order
Hippuritida
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 organism ...
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which lived from 155.7 to 66.043 million years ago.
Taxonomy
Placed by the
WoRMS Worms may refer to:
*Worm, an invertebrate animal with a tube-like body and no limbs
Places
*Worms, Germany, a city
** Worms (electoral district)
* Worms, Nebraska, U.S.
*Worms im Veltlintal, the German name for Bormio, Italy
Arts and entertai ...
and
Fossilworks
Fossilworks is a portal which provides query, download, and analysis tools to facilitate access to the Paleobiology Database, a large relational database assembled by hundreds of paleontologists from around the world.
History
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Family Requieniidae
Kutassy, 1934
* Subfamily:
Matheroniinae
** Genus: ''
Hypelasma''
** Genus: ''
Kugleria''
** Genus: ''
Lovetchenia''
** Genus: ''
Matheronia''
** Genus: ''
Rutonia''
* Subfamily:
Requieniinae
** Genus: ''
Apricardia''
** Genus: ''
Bayleia''
** Genus: ''
Bayleoidea''
** Genus: ''
Pseudotoucasia''
** Genus: ''
Requienia''
** Genus: ''
Toucasia''
References
Prehistoric bivalve families
Hippuritida
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