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    I_gotta_rock

    By I_gotta_rock

    Taxonomy

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Mollusca
    Class: Bivalva
    Order: Carditoida
    Family: Carditidae
    Genus: Cardita
    Species: Cardita protracta
    Author Citation Conrad, 1863

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Cenozoic
    Period: Neogene
    Epoch: Miocene

    Stratigraphy

    Choptank Formation

    Provenance

    Collector: Heather Siple
    Date Collected: 07/03/2018
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Length: 1.6 cm
    Width: 3.2 cm
    Height: 0.7 cm

    Location

    Matoaka Beach
    Calvert County
    Maryland
    United States

    Comments

    Collected on the beach.

    Donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History.

    Go to fossils Bivalves

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    Miocene_Mason

    Miocene_Mason

    Posted

    Thanks for posting, one of these popped out of an Ecphora I was prepping and I was wondering what it was!

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    I_gotta_rock

    I_gotta_rock

    Posted

    It can be devil9shly hard to ID some of this stuff. I use six books plus three web sites just to ID the stuff from one location! That's why I've been systematically posting every new species (to me) that I find out there. The literature is scarce and sketchy.

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