# Caprina

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of bivalves}}
{{For|the genus  of moths|Caprinia}}
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| taxon = Caprina
| image = Caprinidae - Caprina adversa.JPG
| image_caption = Fossil shell of ''[Caprina adversa](/source/Caprina_adversa)'' from [France](/source/France), on display at [Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée](/source/Galerie_de_pal%C3%A9ontologie_et_d'anatomie_compar%C3%A9e) in Paris
| fossil_range = [Cretaceous](/source/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](/source/rudists), a group of [marine](/source/Marine_(ocean)) [heterodont](/source/Heterodonta) [bivalves](/source/bivalves) belonging to the family [Caprinidae](/source/Caprinidae).<ref>[https://www.gbif.org/species/5794545/classification GBIF]</ref>

These stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeders lived in the [Cretaceous](/source/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](/source/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_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

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