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Binneyitidae

Binneyitidae

Overview

Binneyitidae Reeside, 1927

Common Name: 

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Shell is compressed, flat-sided, with weak ornamentation. Shell usually have a nacreous (shiny) luster. Suture lines have one or more bifurcated lobes with parallel sides.

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Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile (swim)

        FEEDING MODE: Predator

        HABITAT: epifaunal

Duration: Upper Albian to Lower Santonian (Source: Wright et al., 1996).

PaleoDB taxon number: 134167.

Sources:

Wright, C. W., 1996. Ammonoidea, in Kaesler, R. L., ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4 Revised, Volume 4. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 362 pp.


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