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Oyster
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Taxonomy
Oyster
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalva
Order: Ostreoida
Family: Ostreidae
Genus: Ostrea
Species: Ostrea carolinesis
Author Citation Conrad, 1832
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Miocene
Stratigraphy
Choptank Formation
Drum Cliff Member
Provenance
Collector: Heather Siple
Date Collected: 07/03/2017
Acquired by: Field Collection
Location
St. Leonard
Calvert County
Maryland
United States
Comments
Although there are oysters littering the beach, I would hesitate to call any one of them anything other than modern. The fossilized oysters of this type retained their colors remarkably well. This shell was excavated from a lump of matrix deposited in the Chesapeake Bay after a landslide. This specimen was donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
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