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Oyster
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Taxonomy
Oyster
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalva
Order: Ostreida
Family: Gryphaeidae
Genus: Hyotissa
Species: Hyotissa inermis
Author Citation G.B. Sowerby, 1871
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Miocene
Stratigraphy
Choptank Formation
Drum Cliff Member
Biostratigraphy
Shattuck Zone 17
Provenance
Collector: Heather Siple
Date Collected: 07/03/2017
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Length: 35 mm
Width: 30 mm
Height: 12 mm
Location
St Leonard
Calvert County
Maryland
United States
- shell
- fossil
- miocene
- maryland
- st
- calvert cliffs
- saint
- leonard
- maotaka
- oyster
- chesapeake bay
- choptank
Comments
I never knew if the oyster shells on the beach were fossil or modern until I pulled this out of a block of matrix deposited by landslide into the Chesapeake Bay. This specimen was donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
Genus changed from Parahyotissa.
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