Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: Animalia |
| Phylum: Mollusca |
| Class: Bivalvia |
| Order: Ostreida |
| Family: Pinnidae |
| Genus: Pinna |
| Species: Pinna caloosaensis Dall, 1898 |
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Geological Range
Paleogeographic Distribution
Stratigraphic Occurrences
| Caloosahatchee Formation [Questionable/rare] |
| Tamiami Formation (Pinecrest Beds) [Common] |
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. 660):
“Shell long, slender, straight, narrow, thick, with the valves moderately rounded; carina not conspicuous in the fossils, but the sulcus very long, deep, and sharp, represented on the interior by a large rounded rib; dorsal area sculptured with about three feeble irregularly longitudinal ridges; ventral area with about the same number, but stronger and sharper. Lon. of type 120, max. dorso ventral height 40, min. do. 10, convexity of the valve at the sulcus behind 12 mm.
A single broken valve without the fibrous layer and the apical part of another was obtained from the Pliocene marl of the Caloosahatchie.
This species is not unlike P. rudis in form, but is proportionally much thicker and the sulcus is much larger than in the recent shell, which has no such strong, rounded internal rib.”
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Measurements: n/a
Other remarks: n/a
References: n/a
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Page history:
Some of the content on this page was originally published on the Neogene Atlas of Ancient Life on September 1, 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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