Caprina

{{Short description|Extinct genus of bivalves}} {{For|the genus of moths|Caprinia}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Caprina | image = Caprinidae - Caprina adversa.JPG | image_caption = Fossil shell of ''Caprina adversa'' from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | fossil_range = Cretaceous, {{fossil range|140.2|70.6}}<ref name=fa>[https://www.fossilworks.org The Paleobiology Database]</ref> | authority = d'Orbigny, 1822 | display_parents = 3 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = }}

'''''Caprina''''' is a genus of rudists, a group of marine heterodont bivalves belonging to the family Caprinidae.<ref>[https://www.gbif.org/species/5794545/classification GBIF]</ref>

These stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeders lived in the Cretaceous period, from 140.2 to 70.6 Ma.<ref name=fa/> The rudists became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, apparently as a result of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

Fossils of this genus have been found in the sediments of Europe, Japan, Cuba, Mexico and the United States.<ref name=fa/>

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Category:Cretaceous bivalves Category:Hippuritida Category:Prehistoric bivalve genera Category:Early Cretaceous genus first appearances Category:Albian genera Category:Cenomanian genera Category:Late Cretaceous genus extinctions