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Rudists Fossil

Hippuritida (order), “Hippuritoida”, “The Rudist Order”

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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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Formations Found In

Fredericksberg Group

225 Observations

Terrace deposits (TXQt;0)

184 Observations

183 Observations

Glen Rose Limestone

183 Observations

Edwards Limestone

174 Observations

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