Inoceramidae

Inoceramidae is an extinct family of clam-like bivalves. Fossils of inoceramids are found in marine sediments of Permian to latest Cretaceous in age. Inoceramids tended to live in upper bathyal and neritic environments.[1]

Inoceramidae
Inoceramus from the Cretaceous of South Dakota
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pteriida
Superfamily: Ambonychioidea
Family: Inoceramidae

Taxonomy

Inoceramidae Giebel 1852

  • Genus Actinoceramus Meek, 1864 (Synonym = Birostrina De Luc & Sowerby, 1821)
  • Genus Anopaea Eichwald, 1861
  • Genus Arctomytiloides Polubotko, 1992
  • Genus Cataceramus Cox, 1969
  • Genus Cladoceramus Seitz, 1961
  • Genus Cremnoceramus Heinz, 1932
  • Genus Endocostea Whitfield, 1877
  • Genus Inoceramus Sowerby, 1814
    • Subgenus Inoceramus (Cordiceramus) (Heinz, 1932)
    • Subgenus Inoceramus (Inoceramus) Sowerby, 1814
    • Subgenus Inoceramus (Sphenoceramus) (Böhm, 1915)
  • Genus Magadiceramus Heinz, 1932
  • Genus Mytiloides Brongniart, 1822
  • Genus Neocomiceramus Pokhialainen, 1972
  • Genus Neoinoceramus Ihering, 1902
  • Genus Parainoceramus Voronetz, 1936
  • Genus Platyceramus Heinz, 1932
  • Genus Pseudomytiloides Koschelkina, 1963
  • Genus Retroceramus Koschelkina, 1958
  • Genus Spyridoceramus Cox, 1969
  • Genus Tethyoceramus Sornay, 1980
  • Genus Trochoceramus Heinz, 1932
  • Genus Volviceramus Stoliczka, 1871

Footnotes

  1. "Paleoecologic Context", Pasch and May (2001); pages 224–225.


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