Mussels play at being corals
- Future
- Bad. After having been common these bivales died out at the end of the Cretaceous
- Favoritefood
- Plankton
- Favorite place
- Coral reef
- Founding place
- Dordogne and Provence, France
Name
Hippurites was unique, and among the largest mussels that have ever existed. It was descended from oysters; but one of the half shells was shaped like a cup and the other like a flat lid. Hippurites mussels grew in colonies and, generation after generation, their shells built up reefs in a manner similar to the coral reefs of today.
- Future
- Poor. After having been common these bivalves died out at the end of the Cretaceous
- Favoritefood
- Plankton
- Favorite place
- Coral reef
- Founding place
- Dordogne and Provence, France
Hippurites
Hippurites was unique, and among the largest mussels that have ever existed. It was descended from oysters; but one of the half shells was shaped like a cup and the other like a flat lid. Hippurites mussels grew in colonies and, generation after generation, their shells built up reefs in a manner similar to the coral reefs of today.
Fossils and Evolution
This is part of the exhibition Fossils and Evolution at the Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.
