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"Monfils, Paul" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:56:52 -0400
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I agree with Andrew that the fossil is an internal cast (The shell fills
with sediment, which hardens inside, then the actual shell dissolves away),
but I don't think it is a cardiid.  I think it is a member of Arcidae, close
to the the extant species Noetia ponderosa.

Paul M.

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