hooked surfclam

Simomactra falcata

Classification

Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Family: Mactridae

The Briones Formation is a Late/Upper Miocene epoch geologic formation of the East Bay region in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It is found in western Contra Costa County. Geology The formation preserves fossils dating back to the Late/Upper Miocene epoch of the Neogene period.

Distribution

hooked surfclam — (c) Parsa Fard, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Parsa Fard · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 24Canada · 6

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Parsa Fard, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Parsa Fard · CC-BY DescriptionBriones Sandstone, Wikipedia contributors

hooked surfclam

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