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  • Plagiostoma gigantea (Sowerby 1814)

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    Ludwigia

    By Ludwigia

    Taxonomy

    Bivalve

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Mollusca
    Class: Bivalvia
    Order: Dysodonta
    Family: Limidae
    Genus: Plagiostoma
    Species: Plagiostoma gigantea
    Author Citation Sowerby 1814

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Mesozoic
    Period: Jurassic
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Early
    International Age: Hettangian

    Stratigraphy

    Angulatenton Formation

    Biostratigraphy

    angulaten Zone

    Provenance

    Collector: Roger Furze
    Date Collected: 02/15/2017
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Length: 13 cm

    Location

    Behla
    Blumberg
    Baden-Wurttemberg
    Germany

    Comments

    Shell preservation

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    Max-fossils

    Again very nice!!! Shame about that crack though...

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    Ludwigia
    12 hours ago, Max-fossils said:

    Again very nice!!! Shame about that crack though...

    I find it makes it rather unique. A lesson in tectonics :)

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    Max-fossils
    14 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

    I find it makes it rather unique. A lesson in tectonics :)

    True haha. 

    Did you have to prep this one a lot, or was it more or less found like this?

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    Ludwigia

    It came out relatively clean. Just had to do a bit of forming and abrading.

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    Max-fossils
    On 1/31/2018 at 11:55 PM, Ludwigia said:

    It came out relatively clean. Just had to do a bit of forming and abrading.

    Ah okay. Nice

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