Hippuritoida
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thumb|Rudist bivalve, Maurens Formation, Upper Cretaceous, southwestern France
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- synonym
- Parent taxon
- Heterodonta
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- RudistCretaceousUAE.jpg
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- Hippuritoida
- taxon name
- Hippuritoida
- taxon rank
- order
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
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- Shell description
- Fossil range and extinction
- Taxonomy
- Ecology
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thumb|Rudist bivalve, Maurens Formation, Upper Cretaceous, southwestern France
Rudists are a group of extinct box-, tube- or ring-shaped marine heterodont bivalves belonging to the order Hippuritida that arose during the Late Jurassic and became so diverse during the Cretaceous that they were major reef-building organisms in the Tethys Ocean, until their complete extinction at the close of the Cretaceous.
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