Hyotissa semiplana
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| Fossil shells of Hyotissa semiplana from Maastrichtian age, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Ostreida |
| Family: | Gryphaeidae |
| Genus: | Hyotissa |
| Species: | H. semiplana
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| Hyotissa semiplana (de Sowerby, 1825)
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Hyotissa semiplana is an extinct species of large saltwater oysters, a fossil marine bivalve mollusk in the family Gryphaeidae, the foam oysters[1]
Description
Fossil shells of Hyotissa semiplana can reach a diameter of about 60 millimetres (2.4 in).[2] They have thick-walled valves, with rough, nodose surface.[3][4]
Distribution
Fossils of this species have been found in the Campanian-Maestrichtian of Poland, in the Santonian-Maestrichtian of Europe and North Africa and in the Campanian of South India.[3][5]
References
- ^ Universal Biological Indexer
- ^ Kreidemuseum
- ^ a b HALINA PUGACZEWSKA THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OSTREIDAE FROM THE MIDDLE VISTULA REGION (POLAND
- ^ Anne Mehlin Sørensena, Finn Surlyka, John W.M. Jag Adaptive morphologies and guild structure in a high-diversity bivalve faunafrom an early Campanian rocky shore, Ivö Klack (Sweden)
- ^ ANAND K. JAITLY and SANJAY K. MISHRA DISCOVERY OF THE OYSTER HYOTISSA SEMIPLANA (SOWERBY, 1813) FROM THE CAMPANIAN (LATE CRETACEOUS) OF SOUTH INDIA
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