Pycnodonte

Pycnodonte is a genus of extinct oysters, fossil marine bivalve mollusks in the family Gryphaeidae, the foam oysters or honeycomb oysters. Shells of species in this genus are found around the world in fossil shell beds from the Valanginian (140.2 Ma) to the Early Pleistocene (0.781 Ma). They are a commonly found fossil in Cretaceous shellbeds of the Navesink Formation in New Jersey.

==Species== Species within the genus Pycnodonte include: Pycnodonte amakusensis Tashiro 1978 † Pycnodonte aucella (Roemer, 1849) † Pycnodonte belli (Stephenson, 1941) † Pycnodonte brongniarti (Bronn 1831) † Pycnodonte callifera (Lamarck, 1819) † Pycnodonte convexa (Say 1820) † Pycnodonte costei Coquand 1869 † Pycnodonte heermanni Conrad 1855 † Pycnodonte kansasense Bottjer † Pycnodonte mutabilis (Morton, 1828) † Pycnodonte newberryi (Stanton) † Pycnodonte panda Morton 1833 † Pycnodonte percrassa Conrad 1840 † Pycnodonte roanokensis (Cragin, 1893) † Pycnodonte squarrosa de Serres 1843 † Pycnodonte taniguchii † Pycnodonte trigonalis† Pycnodonte vesicularis (Lamarck 1806) † Pycnodonte vesiculosa Sowerby 1822 † Pycnodonte wardi (Hill and Vaughan, 1898) †