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Platyceramus

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51: 458: 71: 50: 234:. Individuals of this species typically reached 1 m (3 ft 3 in) or more in axial length, but some exceptional specimens 3 m (9 ft 10 in) long have been found, making it the 238:. Its huge but very thin shell often provided shelter for schools of small fish, some of which became trapped and fossilised themselves. The outer shell often provided 417: 538: 499: 318: 404: 543: 533: 523: 548: 492: 528: 70: 485: 326: 294:"Oyster-shell coprolites; a stratigraphic marker in the smoky hill chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of Western Kansas" 346: 518: 430: 391: 252: 457: 319:
Paleoecology of giant Inoceramidae (Platyceramus) on a Santonian (Cretaceous) seafloor in Colorado
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Journal of Paleontology , Jan., 2007, Vol. 81, No. 1 (Jan., 2007), pp. 64-81
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Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science: Abstracts
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Shells containing pearls have also been discovered.
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Index

Platyceramus cycloides
Cretaceous

Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Pteriida
Inoceramidae
Platyceramus
Cretaceous
bivalve
molluscs
inoceramid
subgenus
Inoceramus
largest known bivalve
habitat
oysters
epizoic
Pseudoperna congesta
barnacles


"Oyster-shell coprolites; a stratigraphic marker in the smoky hill chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of Western Kansas"
Paleoecology of giant Inoceramidae (Platyceramus) on a Santonian (Cretaceous) seafloor in Colorado
Natural History Museum: Savage Ancient Seas
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