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Caprina

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Caprina
Temporal range: Cretaceous, 140.2–70.6 Ma [1]
Fossil shell of Caprina adversa from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Hippuritida
Suborder: Hippuritidina
Superfamily: Caprinoidea
Family: Caprinidae
Genus: Caprina
d'Orbigny, 1822

Caprina is a genus of rudists, a group of marine heterodont bivalves belonging to the family Caprinidae.[2]

These stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeders lived in the Cretaceous period, from 140.2 to 70.6 Ma.[1] The rudists became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, apparently as a result of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

Fossils of this genus have been found in the sediments of Europe, Japan, Cuba, Mexico and the United States.[1]

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