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Cretaceous Fossil Gallery - Bivalve (pelecypod)

Mollusca, Bivalvia, Hippuritoida

(Phylum, Class, Order)

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Fossil identification by Jo Cox unless otherwise noted

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Hippuritacea

(Superfamily)

Sellaea sp. (internal cast)

Period: Lower Cretaceous

Location: Taylor Co. Texas

Collection: Hardin-Simmons University

Size: 86 mm long

Sellaea 1.jpg (77058 bytes)

 

Sellaea sp. (internal cast)

Period: Lower Cretaceous

Location: Taylor Co. Texas

Collection: Judie Ostlien

Size: 8 mm wide

Sellaea 2a.jpg (86628 bytes)   Sellaea 2b.jpg (86066 bytes)

 

Caprinloidea sp. (internal cast)

Period: Lower Cretaceous

Location: Taylor Co. Texas

Collection: Judie Ostlien

Size: 25 mm long

Caprinloidea 1a.jpg (164493 bytes)   Caprinloidea 1b.jpg (102701 bytes)

 

Caprotina (Sellaea) zitteli (internal cast)

Common Name: "melting ice-cream cone"

Period: Lower Cretaceous

Location: Taylor Co. Texas

Collection: Judie Ostlien

Size: 59 mm wide, 88 mm tall

Caprotina zitteli.jpg (95388 bytes)

 

Caprinuloidea planata

Period: Lower Cretaceous

Location: Taylor Co. Texas

Collection: Jo Cox

Size: ? mm long

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Caprinuloidea planata

Period: Lower Cretaceous

Location: Val Verde Co. Texas (Pump Canyon)

Collection: Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection

Size: 152 mm long

Caprinuloidea planata w crystals 1a.jpg (115527 bytes)   Caprinuloidea planata w crystals 1c.jpg (103225 bytes)

Cross-section showing chambers filled with tiny calcite crystals.

 

Eoradiolites sp.

Period: Lower Cretaceous

Location:Taylor Co. Texas

Collection:Judie Ostlien

Size: 54 mm tall

Eoradiolites 1a.jpg (107370 bytes)   Eoradiolites 1b.jpg (114194 bytes)

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