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Oyster
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Pliocene
International Age: Zanclean
Yorktown Formation
Rushmere Member
Collector: Don Rideout
Date Collected: 05/13/2017
Acquired by: Field Collection
Length: 66 mm
Width: 53 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Quarry near the Tar River
Edgecombe County
North Carolina
United States
This beautiful little oyster was self collected. It was dug out of the formation with both valves, always a great way to find bivalves. Was originally assigned to genus, Conradostrea but is now Myrakeena.
Lit:
The Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, II. Clayton Ray, editor. LATE PLIOCENE AND EARLY PLEISTOCENE MOLLUSCA FROM THE JAMES CITY AND CHOWAN RIVER FORMATIONS AT THE LEE CREEK MINE, by Lauck W. Ward and Blake W. Blackwelder. Page 113
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