Tellidora cristata
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Bivalvia
- Order: Imparidentia
- Family: Tellinidae
- Genus: Tellidora
- Species: Tellidora cristata (Récluz, 1842)
- Common Name: White-crest tellin
Geological Range
Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene; Recent.
Paleogeographic Distribution
Southern Florida to South Carolina.
Remarks
For information on the modern distribution of the species, see Malacolog.
Original Description (from Récluz, 1842, p. 270):
"Testa ovato sub-trigona, depresso-plana, valvula sinistra planissima, dextra vix convexa, albido-vitrea, pellucida, concentrico plicata: plicis inferioribus striaeformibus, postice attenuata, angulata, margine superiore oblique recta, acute crenata, antice rotundata, superne tenne arcuatim emarginata ac cristata; apicibus antice recurvis, acutis; long. 23, larg. 30, convexité 5 mill. — Ilab.: — Trouvée sur le banc de Campêche par M. Cosmao , commandant la station navale du Mexique."
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Stratigraphic Occurrences
- Late Pleistocene
- Anastasia Formation? (S. FL)
- Coffee Mill Hammock Formation (S. FL)
- Fort Thompson Formation (S. FL)
- Neuse Formation (NC)
- Pamlico Formation (N. FL)
- Middle Pleistocene
- Bermont Formation (S. FL)
- Canepatch Formation (SC)
- Early Pleistocene
- Caloosahatchee Formation (S. FL)
- Nashua Formation (N. FL)
- Late Pliocene
- Duplin / Raysor formations (GA)
- Tamiami Formation (Pinecrest Beds) (S. FL)
