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Plicatulidae

Plicatulidae

Overview

Plicatulidae Watson, 1930

Common Name: Kitten's Paws

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Plicatulidae have oval to slightly triangle shaped shells with an irregular outline. They have deep ridges as surface ornamentation and cement to hard surfaces just like oysters.

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Paleoecology: 

        MOBILITY: Stationary

        FEEDING MODE: Suspension Feeder

        HABITAT: Epifaunal

Sources:

Cox, L. R. et al. 1969. Bivalvia, in R. C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N, Mollusca 6, Volume 1. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 1224 pp.


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