Radiolites
Sign in to saveRadiolites is a genus of rudists in the family Radiolitidae.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Radiolitidae
Show 3 more facts
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Radiolites
- Commons category
- Radiolites
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Fossil record
- Species
- References
- External links
Radiolites is a genus of rudists in the family Radiolitidae.
==Fossil record== These rudists lived in the Cretaceous from the upper Albian to the upper Maastrichtian ages (age range: 112.6 to 66.043 million years ago). The fossils were found in Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and United States.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Radiolites” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.