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Carditamera protracta, Conrad, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. vol 1. p 305; Medial Ter. Fos. p 65 pl. 37 fig 2
Trapezoidal, elongated, compressed, widely contracted from beak to base; dorsal & basal margins nearly parallel; ribs about 15, the middle ones triangular & crenated; posterior ribs rounded and having distant arched squamose coarse striae; summit of the beaks scarcely prominent above the hinge line.
L. 1.5- H 0.7 Medial Tertiary
Newbern N. Car.
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Carditamera arata, Conrad, Med. Ter. Foss. p 20 pl 5 fig 1 & p 11 pl 6 fig 2
Shell trapezoidal, with about 15 ribs, profoundly prominent, and crossed with...[typewritten extract]
L. 1.7 H 1.0
Medial Tertiary
James river & Yorktown Va.-near Newbern N.C.-Cumberland Co. N.J. near Easton, Md.
Genus Cardium
Genus Cardium, Linneus P 3p 470 DeKay, Nat. Hist. N.Y. p 205
Shell equivalve, more or less heart shaped; beaks prominent; margin generally toothed or folded within; hinge with two oblique cardinal & two lateral teeth in each valve; palleal impression without a sinus.
Lat a heart
Cardium Acutilaqueatum
Cardium acutilaqueatum, Conrad, Med. Foss. p 34 pl 18 fig 2
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Medial Tertiary Maryland?
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Cardium Aleuticum, Girard; Grewingk, Herb. P. 350 pl [4] 5 fig. 1
L 1.4 H 1.2