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  • Inoperna sowerbyana (D'Orbigny 1847)

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    Ludwigia

    By Ludwigia

    Taxonomy

    Bivalve

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Mollusca
    Class: Bivalvia
    Order: Mytiloida
    Family: Mytilidae
    Genus: Inoperna
    Species: Inoperna sowerbyana
    Author Citation D'Orbigny 1847

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Mesozoic
    Period: Jurassic
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Middle
    International Age: Late Aalenian

    Stratigraphy

    Achdorf-Formation

    Biostratigraphy

    murchisonae Zone

    Provenance

    Collector: Roger Furze
    Date Collected: 05/21/2005
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Length: 6.5 cm

    Location

    Scheffheu
    Wutach Valley
    Baden-Wurttemberg
    Germany

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    Max-fossils

    Wow, gorgeous! This is the first “razor shell” I ever see fossilized. Incredibly cool!

     

    Oh, and the 3 others you just added are also really nice. You truly have some awesome bivalves, I’m very jealous! :envy:

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    Ludwigia

    You'll have to pop down to southern Germany sometime. There are lots of them just lying around here ;)

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    Max-fossils
    4 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

    You'll have to pop down to southern Germany sometime. There are lots of them just lying around here ;)

    Now you're making me even more jealous! :P

     

    But yeah, Germany is not too far away, I'll definitely try to find my own little beauties sometime too!

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