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Cyzicidae

Cyzicidae

Overview

Cyzicidae Stebbing, 1910

Common Name: Clam Shrimp

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: They have a very thin oval shell with two halves lke a clam. Shells may have ornamentation and patterns, depending on the species.

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Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile (burrow)

        FEEDING MODE: Suspension Feeder, Herbivore

        HABITAT: epifaunal, infaunal

Sources:

Tasch, P., 1969. Branchiopoda, in Moore, R. C., ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part R, Arthropoda 4, Volume 1. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 398 pp.


Genera of Cyzicidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway