Posts treating: "bivalve"
Thursday, 24 August 2023
Today's entry is to highlight a number of fossil YouTube videos featuring the University of Cincinnati geology professor Dr. Carlton Brett. These videos were created by Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) of Ithaca, New York, USA. This first video focuses on Devonian Period bivalves from central New York and in particular Actinopteria and Plethomytilus.
The 2nd video covers Devonian Period brachiopod fossils with a focus on Spinocyrtia and Tullypothyridina.
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This picture is of a rudist bivalve fossil called Coralliochama orcutti (White, 1885). Picture was taken in 2016 at Indiana University Department of Geology. The fossil dates to the Upper Cretaceous Period and was found in the Rosario Formation of Punta Banda, Baja California, Mexico. Thanks to Kenny for the picture.
Here is a picture of a Chama placentina (Defrance, 1817) bivalve fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the ocean at the time of the Pleistocene Epoch. Fossil was found in Italy.Image taken in June 2014.
The fossil for today's posting is Tennessee's state fossil (I think, the genus name is slightly different). This bivalve mollusk is called Trigonia thoracica (Morton, 1834). It existed in the Cretaceous Period (144-65 million years ago). The fossil was found in the Tennessee USA.
The fossil was on display in the Evolving Planet section of The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago Illinois, USA as of August 2020. Accession number is PE9161.
The genus named by Bruguière in 1789.
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Recently, my cousin returned from a trip where he acquired some bivalve fossils at a Colorado rock shop. He was told they were from Indonesia. After doing some research on the Internet of other dealers selling fossils like this, the name being used is either Paphia sp. or Striarca cheribonensis. The locality might be either Solo River or Sangrian Done, Jawa Tengah, Java, Indonesia.
Gigantopecten latissimus pelecypod fossil on display at The
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (Milan Natural History
Museum), Italy as of August 2019. The fossil was found in France. It dates to the lower Miocene Epoch (20 million years
This image is identified as Pinna lanceolata (J. Sowerby) bivalve fossil.
They were found in the Corallian Beds Lower Calcareous Grit Scarborough Yorks England.
The fossil dates to the Mesozoic Era, Jurassic Period, Upper/Late
Oxfordian stage.
Fossils were on display at the British Natural History Museum in London, England on August
Recently I visited The Charleston Museum in South Carolina USA. It is one of the oldest museums in the United States. Founded in 1773 and opened to the public in 1824. I was hoping to see the natural history exhibit with special interest in fossils and minerals on display. Unfortunately, these areas were undergoing remodeling during my visit. In the main entrance area, they did have
This image of a bivalve identified as Camptonectes auritus (Schlotheim). It was found in the Corallian Beds Malton Yorks. England. The fossil dates to the Mesozoic Era, Jurassic Period, Upper/Late Oxfordian stage.
Fossil was on display at the British Natural History Museum in London, England on August
This picture is of a Camptonectes cf. Calvus bivalve fossil. It was found in the Blue Lias of Pinhay Bay, Lyme Regis England. The fossils date back to the Lower Jurassic Period.
Specimen displayed at the Lyme Regis Museum in England as of August 2016.
Learn more at www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk
See it on this site as
This image is of the fossilized remains Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) concentricus clams. They were found in the Gault clay of Kent England. This layer dates to the Cretaceous Period.
Specimen on display in the mineral area of the British Natural History Museum in London on August
This picture is of the Plagiostoma giganteum bivalve fossil. It was found in the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis England. The fossils date back to the Lower Jurassic
Period.
Specimens displayed
at the Lyme Regis Museum in England as of August 2016.
Learn more at
This image shows a Myophorella hudlestoni (Lycett) pelecypod fossil. It was found in the Jurassic Period Corallian Beds Berkshire Oolite
series found near Osmington Dorset England. Image taken August 2016. The
fossil was on display at the British Natural History
This image is of the Inoceramus faberi bivalve fossil.
It was found in the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis England. This animal has relatives that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
Fossil on display
at the Lyme Regis Museum in England as of August 2016.
Learn more at
This picture shows a Mytilus edulis (Gray, 1847) marine bivalve mollusc at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this exist in today's oceans. It is also known as the blue or common mussel.
Image taken in June 2014.
Info Sources:
Louisville Area Fossils [2014-10-28 02:30:00]
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Cretaceous; IT,US
This image shows a Hippurites (Lamarck, 1801) marine bivalve mollusk fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in Late Cretaceous oceans.
Images taken in June 2014.
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Here is a picture of a Parvamussium cristatellum (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912) bivalve fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Miocene Epoch of Neogene Period. At the museum it was labeled as Amussium cristatum aka Pecten cristatum (Bavay, 1905).
Image taken in June 2014.
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GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2013-08-16 12:00:19]
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Just as the rings on a tree can be used to determine its age, the bands on a bivalve’s shell can tell us the how long it’s been around for. Warm, food-filled waters lead to greater growth in the summer and low plankton abundance (the principle food source for filter-feeding molluscs) leads to limited growth
Nos ha llegado referencia de un libro monumental sobre los bivalvos tropicales. Sin duda de referencia a los aficionados y paleontológos interesados por los bivalvos. Os adjuntamos la informaciónThe Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is proud to announce its latest scientific publication, Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Nine years in the making, the monograph documents and describes all Recent bivalve mollusks from Baja California, Mexico to northern Peru, from [...]
These bivalve fossils were found in the Niobarra and Pierre formations of the Western Interior Seaway. The Inoceramus sp. clams were one of the more common fossils found from the Cretaceous Period (Mesozoic Era). Some clams could grow over a meter in diameter.Cretaceous Period Map from Wikipedia.orgThese specimens were on display in July 2011 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. See my write up of that trip: CLICK
