Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: Animalia |
| Phylum: Mollusca |
| Class: Bivalvia |
| Order: Arcida |
| Family: Glycymerididae |
| Genus: Glycymeris |
| Species: Glycymeris laevis Tuomey and Holmes, 1856 |
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Geological Range
Paleogeographic Distribution
Stratigraphic Occurrences
| Tamiami Formation (Pinecrest Beds) [Questionable/rare] |
Remarks
Common name: n/a
Synonymy: n/a
Type specimen, locality, and stratum: n/a
Other voucher specimens: n/a
Descriptions:
Original Description (from Tuomey and Holmes, 1857, p. 50):
“Description. Somewhat oval, thick, inequilateral, concentrically striate, or grooved; buccal margin rounded; anal side somewhat produced, obliquely truncate; lip crenato.
The teeth extend without interruption around the hinge. The pallial and muscular impressions are well defined, and in young individuals the shell is slightly angular near the umbones. Umbones pointed and closely approximating.
This is the only species of this genus, without radiating ribs, found in our newer Tertiary rocks.
Plate XVII. Fig. 5, Exterior of left, and interior, hinge and teeth of right valve.
Locality. Waccamaw.”
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Measurements: n/a
Other remarks: n/a
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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 7, 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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