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Acmaeidae

Acmaeidae

Overview

Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850

Common Name: True Limpets

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Acmaeidae shells have a slight cone shape with porcelain coloring and texture.

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Paleoecology: 

        MOBILITY: Mobile

        FEEDING MODE: Herbivore

        HABITAT: Epifaunal

Sources:

Knight, J. B. et al. 1960. Systematic Descriptions [Archaeogastropoda], in R. C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I, Mollusca 1, Volume 1. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 351 pp.


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