Atlantic Calico Scallop
date: label: Collection Date
content: 2013
name: label: Collector
content: A. Blankenbicker et al.
label: Discipline
content: Paleobiology
label: Region
content: US Southeast (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TN, KY)
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: Cenozoic - Neogene - Pliocene
label: Notes
content: Fragment of a fossilized saltwater clam, specifically a scallop, found from a quarry, usually an open pit where rocks, minerals, gravel and more are excavated from the ground. Specimen is still attached to some matrix. It measures around 6 cm x 5.5 cm x 2.5 cm in size.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Oct 2020
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Golden Gate Quarry, North America, United States, Florida, Collier County
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Argopecten gibbus
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO401569
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pteriomorphia, Ostreoida, Pectinidae, Pectininae