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Bridging the gap between the eastern Atlantic and eastern Pacific: A new species of Crassadoma (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) in the Pliocene of Florida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Thomas R. Waller
Thomas R. Waller*
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Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
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Abstract

Crassadoma monroensis new species (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae), from the lower upper Pliocene Ochopee Limestone Member of the Tamiami Formation of southern Florida, is the first undoubted member of the genus Crassadoma Bernard, 1986, to be discovered in the Neogene on the eastern side of the Americas. The new species was likely byssate, not cemented, and fills the geographic gap between ancestral members of the tribe Crassadomini in the eastern Atlantic and Crassadoma gigantea, the giant cemented species that lives along the western shores of North America.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 70 , Issue 6 , November 1996 , pp. 941 - 946
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