Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: Animalia |
| Phylum: Mollusca |
| Class: Bivalvia |
| Order: Limida |
| Family: Limidae |
| Genus: Lima |
| Species: Lima carolinensis Dall, 1898 |
Information
Geological Range
Paleogeographic Distribution
Stratigraphic Occurrences
| Caloosahatchee Formation [Questionable/rare] |
| Nashua Formation [Questionable/rare] |
| Waccamaw Formation [Uncommon] |
| Duplin Formation [Questionable/rare] |
| Jackson Bluff Formation [Uncommon] |
| Raysor Formation [Questionable/rare] |
| Tamiami Formation (Pinecrest Beds) [Uncommon] |
| Yorktown Formation [Uncommon] |
Remarks
Common name: n/a
Synonymy:
Previously listed as Limaria carolinensis on the Neogene Atlas of Ancient Life.
Type specimen, locality, and stratum: n/a
Other voucher specimens: n/a
Descriptions:
Original Description (from Dall, 1898, p. 767):
“Oligocene of the Oak Grove sands, Santa Rosa County, Florida, Burns; Miocene of Darlington, South Carolina, and the Duplin Natural Well, Duplin County, North Carolina, Burns.
Shell small, thin, inflated, oblique, with a moderate gape, sculptured with concentric lines of growth and rather sharp, fine, numerous, somewhat irregular radial threads, obsolete on the beaks, absent from the posterior submargin and the anterior ears; submargins not impressed, beak prominent, ears small, the margin of the gape forming a concave sinuosity in front of and below the anterior beak; hinge-line short, with a very wide pit, its lower margin projecting from the cardinal plate; interior radially striate, the basal margin slightly crenulate. Alt. 16, lat. 12, diam. 7 mm.
This differs from L. papyria Conrad, from the Maryland Miocene, in the absence of the angle which in the latter species modifies the margin just below the anterior car, and in the presence of dense radial striation on the anterior submargin, while in L. papyria this region is smooth.”
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Measurements: n/a
Other remarks: n/a
References: n/a
Online resources:
Page history:
Some of the content on this page was originally published on the Neogene Atlas of Ancient Life on September 3, 2015. 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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