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Mussel With Both Valves
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By I_gotta_rock
Taxonomy
Mussel
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalva
Order: Ostreida
Family: Pinnidae
Genus: Atrina
Species: Atrina harrisii
Author Citation Dall, 1898
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Epoch: Miocene
Stratigraphy
Choptank Formation
Drum Cliff Member
Provenance
Collector: me
Date Collected: 07/03/2018
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Length: 10 cm
Width: 5.5 cm
Location
Matoaka Beach
Calvert County
Maryland
United States
- calvert cliffs
- chesapeake bay
- choptank formation
- drum cliff member
- fosil
- maryland
- miocene
- mussel
- shell
- st leonard
Comments
Excavated from matrix in the Chesapeake Bay, about 10 feet off of the beach at low tide. View is external on both valves, but hard outer coating has been lost to decay. Valves are pearlescent.
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