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Rudist

Rudists are a group of extinct box-, tube- or ring-shaped marineheterodontbivalves belonging to the order Hippuritida that arose during the Late Jurassic and became so diverse during the Cretaceous that they were major reef-building organisms in the Tethys Ocean, until their complete extinction at the close of the Cretaceous.

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