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Showcase No.
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32/2B
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Registration Number
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PELE/1160
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Name of Specimen
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Exogyra imbricate Ceprotina
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Horizon
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Cretaceous
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Locality
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Cape of Good Hope
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Corrected photo link
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5944
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Description
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It is an extinct genus of fossil salt water oysters, marine bivalve in the family molluscs in the family "Gryphaeidae", commonly known as the foam oysters or honey comb oysters. These bivalves grew cemented by the more cupped left valve. The right valve is flatter, and the beak is curved to one side. Exogyra lived on solid substrates in warm sea .
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Phylum
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Mollusca
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Class
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Bivalvia
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Order/Superfamily
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Ostreoida
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Family
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Gryphaeidae
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Remarks
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The foam or honey comb oyster
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Exogyra imbricate Ceprotina-PELE/1160
Exogyra imbricate Ceprotina-PELE/1160 belongs to Gryphaeidae