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Poromyidae

Poromyidae

Overview

Poromyidae Dall, 1886

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Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Poromyidae shells are rounded and elongate with radial ribbing.

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Paleoecology: 

        MOBILITY: Mobile

        FEEDING MODE: Carnivorre

        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 Poromyidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway