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Trigoniidae

Trigoniidae

Overview

Trigoniidae Lamarck, 1819

Common Name: 

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Shells tend to be large with great variation in shape and ornamentation. External ribbing is very dramatic.

        SIZE:

Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile (burrow)

        FEEDING MODE: Suspension Feeder

        HABITAT: Infaunal

Sources:

Cox, L. R. et al. 1969. Bivalvia, in R. C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N, Mollusca 6, Volume 2. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 1224 pp.


Genera of Trigoniidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway