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Barbatia phalacra

Geological Range

Early Miocene to Late Pliocene; Extinct.

Paleogeographic Distribution

Northern Florida.

Remarks

Original Description (from Dall, 1898, p. 626):

"Oligocene of the Chipola marls, Chipola River, and of the Oak Grove sands, Florida; Burns.

Shell thin, moderately convex, equivalve, inequilateral; the prosogyrate beaks within the anterior fourth low and somewhat compressed; sculpture of very numerous fine, even, mostly dichotomous riblets without nodules or reticulation over the whole shell, crossed only by feeble incremental lines; cardinal area very narrow with a few longitudinal grooves; hinge-teeth small, short, and vertical mesially without any gap in the series, distally longer, larger, and more oblique; hinge-line 14/23 of the whole length; internal margin of the valves smooth, byssal gape inconspicuous. Lon. 23.5, alt. 11, diam. 9 mm.

This is a very modest and neat little species which does not seem identifiable with any of the others. It is, perhaps, nearest to B. mississippiensis Conrad, but is smaller, less flattened, and more regular."

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Stratigraphic Occurrences

Late Pliocene
Jackson Bluff Formation (N. FL)
Early Miocene
Chipola Formation (N. FL)
Oak Grove Sand (N. FL)
<i>Barbatia phalacra</i> from the Early Miocene Chipola Fm. of Calhoun County, Florida (UF 67724).
Barbatia phalacra from the Early Miocene Chipola Fm. of Calhoun County, Florida (UF 67724).
Specimen of <i>Barbatia phalacra</i> figured by Dall (1898, pl. 33, fig. 3); 23 mm in length.
Specimen of Barbatia phalacra figured by Dall (1898, pl. 33, fig. 3); 23 mm in length.
Late Pliocene Map
Late Pliocene Map
Early Miocene Map
Early Miocene Map<