Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: Animalia |
| Phylum: Mollusca |
| Class: Bivalvia |
| Order: Ostreida |
| Family: Ostreidae |
| Genus: Cubitostrea |
| Species: Cubitostrea rugifera (Dall, 1898) |
Information
Geological Range
Paleogeographic Distribution
Stratigraphic Occurrences
| Coosawhatchie Formation (Charlton Member) |
| Chipola Formation |
| Torreya Formation |
Remarks
Common name: n/a
Synonymy: n/a
Type specimen, locality, and stratum: n/a
Other voucher specimens: n/a
Descriptions:
Original Description (from Dall, 1898, p. 678):
“Middle Oligocene of the Chipola beds at Alum Bluff and on the Chipola River, Florida, and in the silex beds at Ballast Point, Tampa Bay, Florida; Dall and Burns.
Shell rather thin, irregular, coarsely ribbed, more or less imbricated, margin plicate, form tending to ovate or rounded.”
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Measurements: n/a
Other remarks: n/a
References: n/a
Online resources: n/a
Page history:
Some of the content on this page was originally published on the Neogene Atlas of Ancient Life on August 8, 2014. It was developed by Jonathan R. Hendricks and colleagues and migrated here in 2026.
This page was last modified on October 28, 2026 by Jonathan R. Hendricks.
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