Diceras Temporal range: From
Jurassic to
Cretaceous,
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Fossil Diceras angulatum from Jurassic at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée, Paris | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | † Hippuritida |
Suborder: | † Hippuritidina |
Superfamily: | † Radiolitoidea |
Family: | † Diceratidae |
Genus: | †
Diceras Lamarck, 1805 |
Species | |
See text. |
Diceras is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clams, marine heterodont bivalve molluscs. These bivalves were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.
Species within the genus Diceras:
Fossils of species belonging to this genus have been found in the Cretaceous of France and in the Jurassic of Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Morocco, Poland, Romania and Slovenia.