Daily Archives: April 22, 2012

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: a nestling bivalve (Pleistocene of The Bahamas)

This weathered and encrusted shell was pulled from a round hole bored in a Pleistocene reef (about 125,000 years old) exposed on San Salvador Island, The Bahamas. It is Coralliophaga coralliophaga (Gmelin 1791), a derived venerid bivalve (a type of … Continue reading

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