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Would it be too outlandish to imagine rudists as having zooxanthellate mantle/surfaces just like modern day tridacnids?
Some rudists may have had symbiotic zooxanthellae -- a few species (such as Torreites) had shell shapes that suggest they were maximizing exposure of their mantle surfaces to the light.
Most other rudists didn’t have that sort of morphology, though, so it probably wasn’t a common thing among them.
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Rudists (Order:Â Hippuritoida)
...were a group of ancient heterodont bivalves that lived through the Jurassic to the late Cretaceous. Rudists were reef-builders and became widely successful during the Cretaceous and even out-competed some tropical stony corals. Like other bivalves rudists were suspension feeders and formed their reefs in shallow waters, attaching themselves to the sediment and building up. Rudist shells are distinguished by a large coiled or conical valve that is usually attached to a smaller lid-like or coiled valve.
Phylogeny
Animalia-Mollusca-Bivalvia-Heterodonta-Hippuritoida
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