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Nice Little Brachiopod


danielp

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Found this a lake texoma. It is complete all the way around, needs cleaned a little bit but looks like a great specimen. anyone know the species. It is from the duck creek formation.

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I can't tell which one for sure but it is in the Neithea Family. I want to say it is texana.

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I can't tell which one for sure but it is in the Neithea Family. I want to say it is texana.

No brachiopod, Daniel. As mommabetts noted you have a Neithea texana...very nice.

The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true.  -  JJ

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Those Neithea are confusing to me, they really look like Brachiopods unless you get down to fine details. The Gryphea and Pyncodonte oysters are the same way for me. Pelecypods are supposed to have equal halves down the hinge line! grrrr

Are there any other orders like the Ostreoida and Pectinoida that are inequivalve?

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Shamalama,

Lets see, the Order Isodonta are inequivalve also the Order Pachyodonta which includes the Suborder Rudistacea. The Rudist clams seem to have the most inequal valves. In the Rudist clams the minor valve is not hinged to the Major valve and does not "swing" open. The minor valve opens by being raised straight up like taking a hat off your head.

JKFoam

The Eocene is my favorite

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JKFoam, makes me wonder if they shouldn't all be grouped in a Superorder or combined in a single order.

-Dave

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Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPhee

If I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPhee

Check out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/

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