
Inoceramidae - Wikipedia
The Inoceramidae are an extinct family of bivalves ("clams") in the Class Mollusca. Fossils of inoceramids are found in marine sediments of Permian to latest Cretaceous in age. …
Inoceramus - Wikipedia
Inoceramus (Greek: translation "strong pot") is an extinct genus of fossil marine pteriomorphian bivalves that superficially resembled the related winged pearly oysters of the extant genus …
Inoceramus shells - U.S. National Park Service
Apr 30, 2021 · Inoceramids are bivalves related to living clams and mussels and are one of the most common marine fossils of the Late Cretaceous. Large, diverse groups of Inoceramids …
Inoceramids - Oceans of Kansas
Inoceramids: Some species of clams (bivalves) grew to giant size in the late Cretaceous, attaining diameters of four feet or more. In cross section, these shells are composed of prismatic …
A Field Guide to Fossils of the Smoky Hill Chalk - Part 1a
Inoceramids: Some species of clams (bivalves) grew to giant size in the late Cretaceous, attaining diameters of four feet or more. In cross section, these shells are composed of prismatic …
Inoceramus | Cretaceous, Bivalve & Extinct | Britannica
Inoceramus, genus of extinct pelecypods (clams) found as fossils in Jurassic to Cretaceous rocks (laid down between 199.6 million and 65.5 million years ago). Especially important and …
Inoceramus - Prehistoric Wildlife
Feb 11, 2014 · Inoceramus is the largest known bivalve clam in the fossil record. It is thought that it grew so large so that it could have a larger gill area to cope with oxygen deficient waters. …
Inoceramus - Geology Page
Feb 24, 2015 · Inoceramus, genus of extinct pelecypods (clams) found as fossils in Jurassic to Cretaceous rocks (laid down between 199.6 million and 65.5 million years ago). Especially …
Late Cretaceous inoceramid bivalves of the Kuskokwim Basin ...
This paper documents the taxonomy of the inoceramids in the Kuskokwim Group, develops an inoceramid biostratigraphy based on known ranges in other regions, and analyzes …
Cretaceous Atlas of Ancient Life | Inoceramidae
Key morphological features: Shells are elongated and almost all inoceramids are smooth, but with various shapes. Due to their abundance during the Late Cretaceous, they likely were an …
inoceramid overview - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Inoceramids became dominant elements of many level-bottom communities, and they achieved global dispersion during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, especially during intervals of restricted …
The first evidence of drilling predation in inoceramids
May 20, 2016 · There have been several documented examples of non-predatory borings in inoceramids likely made post mortem by organisms such as bryozoans (Morris, 1990) and …
Multiple geniculated types in a single inoceramid (Bivalvia) species ...
Geniculation, the abrupt change in convexity/inflation of the valve disc, occurs in many inoceramids and has been recognized for decades. But despite extensive inoceramid …
Well‐developed muscle attachments in British Albian inoceramids ...
Jan 20, 2019 · Well-developed muscle scars and associated thickened myostracum preserved in the umbones of phosphatized Gnesioceramus anglicus (Woods) provide insights into the …
A reconsideration of the origins of the ‘typical’ Cretaceous …
Sep 15, 2009 · Albian and Upper Cretaceous inoceramids had the poiriform calcite hinge plate with closely spaced resiliifers that is widely associated with this extinct bivalve family. The …
Science: How a sea change killed the clams | New Scientist
Apr 9, 1994 · The clams, known as inoceramids, thrived for about 200 million years in deep waters. But nearly all existing species became extinct in the late Cretaceous, during the middle …
Bottom water anoxia, inoceramid colonization, and benthopelagic ...
Aug 8, 2008 · Demerara Rise inoceramids also exhibit well-defined, regularly spaced growth lines that are tracked by δ 13 C and δ 18 O variations in shell carbonate that cannot be simply …
Inoceramus - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
Oct 1, 2024 · Inoceramus (Greek: translation "strong pot") is an extinct genus of fossil marine pteriomorphian bivalves that superficially resembled the related winged pearly oysters of the …
Bottom water anoxia, inoceramid colonization, and benthopelagic ...
Aug 8, 2008 · The inoceramids (thin, white bands in the core sample) represent brief geochemical events (years to decades) in which dysoxic conditions established and permitted benthic fauna …
(PDF) Inoceramids and associated ammonite faunas from the …
Dec 22, 2018 · The inoceramids present are Tethyoceramus madagascariensis (Heinz, 1933) and Cremnoceramus deformis erectus (Meek, 1877), recorded for the first time from the region.