Actinoceramus

Actinoceramus is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clams, marine pteriomorphian bivalve molluscs. These bivalves were facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeders.

Actinoceramus
Temporal range: Albian-Cenomanian, 109–89.3 Ma
Fossil Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) sulcatus from Albian age of England at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée, Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pteriida
Family: †Inoceramidae
Genus: †Actinoceramus
Meek, 1864

Species

Species within Actinoceramus:

  • Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) concentricus Parkinson 1819
  • Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni d'Orbigny 1850
  • Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) subsulcatus Wiltshire 1869
  • Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) sulcatus Parkinson 1819

Distribution

Fossils of species of this genus have been found in the Cretaceous of Antarctica, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia (Hiló Formation, Tolima), Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.[1]

References
  1. Actinoceramus at Fossilworks.org


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