Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
Alternative spellings: Ichthyosarcolites, Ichthyosarcolithes
Full reference: A. G. Desmarest. 1817. Mémoire sur deux genres de coquilles fossiles cloisonnées et à siphon. Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire naturelle 85:42-51
Parent taxon: Ichthyosarcolitidae according to P. W. Skelton 2013
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Mitchell 2013, Saucède and Néraudeau 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Steuber 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Curtocaprina, Caprinella
Subtaxa: Ichthyosarcolites triangularis Ichthyosarcolites tricarinatus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (3 collections), Croatia (1), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (3), Egypt (15), France (9), Greece (1), Italy (10), Morocco (1), Slovenia (2), Turkey (3), USSR (1)
Total: 50 collections including 76 occurrences
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