Tellina Bivalve Fossil Sea Shell Prehistoric Cockle Pliocene Terziary Collection

Description

Origin : France

Geological era : Upper Pliocene (Piacenzian)

Age : 3 million of years

Size : cm 2.8

Bivalve Fossil Seashell mm 28 Wedge Cockle Tellin Tellen Tellina elliptica Lamellibranchs Pelecypods Prehistoric Molluscs Pliocene Cenozoic Tertiary Collecting Paleontology Museum.

Pleasant fossil find of Tellinidae Shell from the upper Pliocene, representative collectible sample of best quality, given its fragility, with evident well-preserved anterior and posterior details of the shape of the shell of both valves and the superficial growth lines.
Only a piece, as in photos.

The fossil is supplied naturally, as taken from the field. It can be easily cleaned of sediment that covers it, and if you wish, consolidated with resin paraloid.

Tellina is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs, of the Tellinidae family, order Cardiida.
Commonly known as clams, tellins or tellens, they live quite deep in soft sediments in shallow seas and breathe using long siphons that reach the surface of the sediment.
Tellinids have round or oval, elongated, very flattened shells, with the two valves connected by a large external ligament. Their fossils have been found all over the world.