- spiral, and even a star-shaped form. The
oldest rudists are
found in late Jur****ic
rocks in France. The
rudists became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous...
- plesiosaurs,
several groups of mammals,
ammonites (nautilus-like mollusks),
rudists (reef-building bivalves), and
various groups of
marine plankton. In all...
-
Ordovician period, 488 to 443
million years ago. One
bivalve group, the
rudists,
became major reef-builders in the Cretaceous, but
became extinct in the...
-
later successions included stromatoporoids, corals, algae, bryozoa, and
rudists (a form of
bivalve mollusc). The
extent of
organic reefs has
varied over...
-
Caprina is a
genus of
rudists, a
group of
marine heterodont bivalves belonging to the
family Caprinidae.
These stationary intermediate-level epifaunal...
-
lagoonal to
estuarine environment and
contain many
fossil fish,
flora and
rudists,
typical reef-building
organisms of the Cretaceous. The
formation rests...
-
relatives of
Megalodon such as
Pachyrisma grande were
closely related to the
rudists. †Megalodon hungari**** †Megalodon
longjiangensis †Megalodon rostratiforme...
- and seas were po****ted with now-extinct
marine reptiles, ammonites, and
rudists,
while dinosaurs continued to
dominate on land. The
world was
largely ice-free...
- feed on detritus.
Coccolithophorids and
mollusks (including ammonites,
rudists,
freshwater snails, and mussels), and
those organisms whose food chain...
-
Caprinidae is a
family of
rudists, a
group of
unusual extinct sal****er clams,
marine heterodont bivalves in the
order Hippuritida.
These stationary intermediate-level...