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Anomia bivalve
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Taxonomy
Bivalve
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Ostreoida
Family: Ostreina
Genus: Anomia
Species: Anomia ephippium
Author Citation Linnaeus
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Quaternary
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Pleistocene
International Age: Eemian
Stratigraphy
Eem Formation
Provenance
Collector: Max Dereme
Date Collected: 01/27/2018
Acquired by: Field Collection
Location
(ex-situ) The Hague
South Holland
Netherlands
Comments
An Anomia ephippium, found in a sandbank in the city of The Hague. This is technically an ex-situ find, because the city itself isn't really a location for finding fossils. The real location would be the Zandmotor or the North Sea; the bivalve here was brought with sands imported from the North Sea.
This species is recognizable from the three muscle scars, the pearly shine and the weird little white thing in the hinge area (3rd picture).
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