FACTS ABOUT RUDISTS

Rudists are kind of molluscs that possess the morphology and characteristic feature of coral. They emerged during the late Jurassic and got vastly populated in the cretaceous ocean during the cretaceous period these creatures helped in reef building in the Tethys ocean until their complete extinction at the close cretaceous. Rudists are organisms that are a group of extinct box tube or ring shaped marine heterodont bivalves.