Inoceramidae

Inoceramidae
Inoceramus from the Cretaceous of South Dakota
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Cryptodonta
Order:	Praecardioida
Family:	Inoceramidae

Inoceramidae is an extinct family of clam like bivalves or clams. Fossils of inoceramids are found in marine sediments of Permian to latest Cretaceous in age. Inoceramids tended to live in upper bathyal and neritic environments.^[1] In Alaska's Matanuska Formation, the most abundant mollusks in the quarry containing the Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur were inoceramids.^[2]

Taxonomy

Inoceramidae Giebel 1852

• Genus Actinoceramus Meek, 1864 (Synonym = Birostrina De Luc & Sowerby, 1821)
• Genus Anopaea Eichwald, 1861
• Genus Arctomytiloides Polubotko, 1992
• Genus Cataceramus Cox, 1969
• Genus Cladoceramus Seitz, 1961
• Genus Cremnoceramus Heinz, 1932
• Genus Endocostea Whitfield, 1877
• Genus Inoceramus Sowerby, 1814
  • Subgenus Inoceramus (Cordiceramus) (Heinz, 1932)
  • Subgenus Inoceramus (Inoceramus) Sowerby, 1814
  • Subgenus Inoceramus (Sphenoceramus) (Böhm, 1915)
• Genus Magadiceramus Heinz, 1932
• Genus Mytiloides Brongniart, 1822
• Genus Neocomiceramus Pokhialainen, 1972
• Genus Neoinoceramus Ihering, 1902
• Genus Parainoceramus Voronetz, 1936
• Genus Platyceramus Heinz, 1932
• Genus Pseudomytiloides Koschelkina, 1963
• Genus Retroceramus Koschelkina, 1958
• Genus Spyridoceramus Cox, 1969
• Genus Tethyoceramus Sornay, 1980
• Genus Trochoceramus Heinz, 1932
• Genus Volviceramus Stoliczka, 1871

Footnotes

1. "Paleoecologic Context", Pasch and May (2001); pages 224–225.
2. "Paleoecologic Context", Pasch and May (2001); page 228.

References

• Ann D. Pasch & Kevin C. May. (2001). "Taphonomy and paleoenvironment of a hadrosaur (Dinosauria) from the Matanuska Formation (Turonian) in South-Central Alaska". In Darren H. Tanke & Kenneth Carpenter. Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Indiana University Press. pp. 219–236. ISBN 978-0-253-33907-2.