Monopleura
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| Monopleura Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | †Hippuritida |
| Family: | †Monopleuridae |
| Genus: | †Monopleura Matheron, 1842[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Monopleura varians Matheron, 1842 (type by subsequent designation) | |
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Monopleura is a genus[3] of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Monopleuridae. These fossils have been dated back to the Cretaceous Period (145.5 million to 66 million years ago).
These bivalves are known as pachyodonts.
