Monopleura

{{Short description|Extinct genus of bivalves}}

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| taxon = Monopleura

| authority = Matheron, 1842Matheron, P. (1842–1843). Catalogue méthodique et descriptif des corps organisés fossiles du départment des Bouches-du-Rhône et lieux circonvoisins; précédé D'un Mémoire sur les terrains supérieurs au Grès Bigarré du S. E. de la France. Carnaud Fils, Marseille, 269 pp. + 41 pls.

page(s): pls 3, 4; note: description on p. 105 appeared in 1843

| type_species = {{extinct}}Monopleura varians

| type_species_authority = Matheron, 1842 (type by subsequent designation)

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| subdivision_ref =MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Monopleura Matheron, 1842 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=873834 on 23 July 2024

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• {{extinct}}Monopleura aliena (Počta, 1889)
• {{extinct}}Monopleura cumulus Počta, 1889
• {{extinct}}Monopleura michaillensis Pictet & Campiche, 1868
• {{extinct}}Monopleura taurica Pchelintsev, 1959

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Monopleura is a genus{{cite web|title=Monopleura figolina|url=http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/M/Monopleura_figolina/|publisher=Zipcode Zoo|accessdate=16 November 2010}} 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.