Ramonalinidae
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| Ramonalinidae Temporal range:
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| Ramonalina ramanensis (Triassic, southern Israel) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pteriida |
| Superfamily: | †Ambonychioidea |
| Family: | †Ramonalinidae Yancey et al. 2009[1] |
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Ramonalinidae is an extinct family of marine bivalve molluscs from the late Anisian (early Middle Triassic). It was an edgewise-recliner with a flattened anteroventral surface (on which it rested) and partially fused valves. They formed distinctive mud mounds.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]- Ramonalina is thus far the only known genus.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca)
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