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Keyhole Limpit
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Taxonomy
Keyhole Limpit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: (clade) Vetigastropoda
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Diodora
Species: Diodora griscomi
Author Citation Conrad, 1834
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
Dimensions
Length: 24 mm
Width: 15 mm
Height: 7 mm
Location
St Leonard
Calvert County
Maryland
United States
- calvert cliffs
- cheasapeake bay
- choptank
- fossil
- leonard
- limpit
- maryland
- matoaka
- miocene
- plum point
- saint
- shell
- st
Comments
Donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
According to L.W. Ward, 1998 ( Full Reference : L. W. Ward. 1998. Mollusks from the Lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Kenty County, Delaware: A preliminary analysis. Geology and paleontology of the lower Miocene Pollack Farm Fossil Site, Delaware [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] ) , the Genus was re-assigned from Fissuridae to Diodora.
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