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  • Venus Clam

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    By I_gotta_rock (edited)

    Taxonomy

    Venus Clam

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Mollusca
    Class: Bivalva
    Order: Veneridei
    Family: Ungulinidae
    Genus: Diplodonta
    Species: Diplodonta subvexa
    Author Citation (Conrad, 1838)

    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: 07/03/2018
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Length: 2.1 cm
    Width: 1.8 cm
    Height: 0.8 cm

    Location

    Matoaka Beach
    Calvert County
    Maryland
    United States

    Comments

    Collected from landslide material in the bay.

    Donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History.

    Go to fossils Bivalves

    User Feedback


    ricardo

    Nice fossil! Thanks for uploading those pictures. I can be wrong but I believe it is Genus: Diplodonta

     

    Best regards,

     

    Ricardo

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    I_gotta_rock

    I_gotta_rock

    Posted

    1 hour ago, ricardo said:

    Nice fossil! Thanks for uploading those pictures. I can be wrong but I believe it is Genus: Diplodonta

     

    Best regards,

     

    Ricardo

     I thought so too, had it that way, then saw it somewhere with an e and corrected myself. I think there have been variations in the spelling somewhere. Corrected back to where we both thought it was correct.

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