Hippurites atheniensis

Hippurites atheniensis
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Specimen of Hippurites atheniensis from Greece
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: †Hippuritida
Family: †Hippuritidae
Genus: †Hippurites
Species:
†H. atheniensis
Binomial name
†Hippurites atheniensis
Ktenas, 1907

Hippurites atheniensis is an extinct species of fossil saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Hippuritidae. These fossils occur in the Late Cretaceous deposits of Greece, Serbia, Dalmatia, Istria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Italy.

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