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. 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

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.