Ctenodontidae
Classification
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Nuculoida
Family: Ctenodontidae Wöhrmann, 1893
Cincinnatian Genera: Ctenodonta
Geologic Range
Ordovician – Carboniferous
Common Paleoecology
Ctenodontidae is an extinct family of facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit and suspension feeders
Description of the Family
- Shell equilateral
- Pallial sinus lacking
- Resilifer absent
- Cylindrical external ligament posterior to umbones
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Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N, Mollusca 6 (1 of 3) (1969):
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N, Mollusca 6 (1 of 3) (1969):
- (Characters of Superfamily) Shell equilateral, pallial sinus lacking, resilifer absent, cylindrical external ligament posterior to umbones.
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Ctenodonta
