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  • Anomia major

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    By sixgill pete (edited)

    Taxonomy

    Jingle Shell

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Mollusca
    Class: Bivalvia
    Order: Pectinoida
    Family: Anomiidae
    Genus: Anomia
    Species: Anomia major
    Author Citation Stephenson, 1926

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Mesozoic
    Period: Cretaceous
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Late
    International Age: Maastrichtian

    Stratigraphy

    PeeDee Formation
    Rocky Point Member

    Provenance

    Collector: Don Rideout
    Date Collected: 12/02/2016
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Width: 49 mm

    Location

    Martin Marieta Quarry Castle Hayne
    New Hanover County
    North Carolina
    United States

    Comments

    A really nice and very well preserved Anomia from the Cretaceous period. 

    Lit:

    Additions To The Upper Cretaceous Vertebrate Faunas of The Carolinas. Lloyd W. Stephenson, 1926

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    Plax

    looks like forteplicata?

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    Posted

    @Plax after doing some research I believe the species may be A. major. Lit: Additions To The Upper Cretaceous Invertebrate Faunas of The Carolinas; Stephenson, 1926

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    Plax

    looks like forteplicata to me. In Stephenson's 1923 it looks like fearensis. Could well be major though. What formation and locality is it from in Stephenson?

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    Posted

    @Plax In Stephenson was found at "the new Rocky Point quarries a mile northeast of Rocky Point Station.  Upper Cretaceous, upper part of Exogyra costata zone. It is remarkably similar to his drawing of it. May just go back and call it sp. again.

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    Plax

    wasn't really disagreeing six! Just saying what it looked like. You are probably right. Certainly from the right source rock.

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    Posted

    It's all good plax. Sometimes disagreeing with an ID can lead to new insight on both parts. It certainly has made me look at it some more.

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