Inoceramidae
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Inoceramidae was a family
of prehistoric clam
s. Inoceramids tended to live in upper bathyal and neritic environments. In Alaska's Matanuska Formation
, the most abundant mollusks in the quarry containing the Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur were inoceramids.
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of prehistoric clam
Clam
The word "clam" can be applied to freshwater mussels, and other freshwater bivalves, as well as marine bivalves.In the United States, "clam" can be used in several different ways: one, as a general term covering all bivalve molluscs...
s. Inoceramids tended to live in upper bathyal and neritic environments. In Alaska's Matanuska Formation
Matanuska Formation
The Matanuska Formation consists of more than of sedimentary strata exposed in the northern Chugach Mountains, Matanuska Valley, and southern Talkeetna Mountains of South-Central Alaska. The Matanuska Formation contains strata from Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous . Parts of the formation...
, the most abundant mollusks in the quarry containing the Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur were inoceramids.