Ramonalinidae

Ramonalinidae is an extinct family of marine bivalve molluscs from the late Anisian (early Middle Triassic). It was an edgewise-recliner with a flattened anteroventral surface (on which it rested) and partially fused valves. They formed distinctive mud mounds.^[2]

Ramonalinidae Temporal range: Anisian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Ramonalina ramanensis (Triassic, southern Israel)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pteriida
Superfamily:	†Ambonychioidea
Family:	†Ramonalinidae Yancey et al. 2009[1]
Genera
See text

Taxonomy

• Ramonalina is thus far the only known genus.^[2]