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    Chesapecten is an extinct genus of scallop known from marine strata from the early Miocene to the early Pleistocene of the Eastern United States. It flourished...
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    Chesapecten jeffersonius is the fossilized form of an extinct scallop, which lived in the early Pliocene epoch between four and five million years ago...
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  • attached to a branch of the coral Cladocora from the Pliocene of Cyprus Chesapecten, barnacles and sponge borings (Entobia) from the Pliocene of York River...
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    Foxhound Fish: Brook trout, striped bass Flower/Tree: Dogwood Fossil: Chesapecten jeffersonius Insect: Tiger swallowtail Mammal: Virginia big-eared bat...
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    Teppner, 1922 Austrohinnites Beu & Darragh, 2001 † Azumapecten Habe, 1977 Chesapecten Ward & Blackwelder, 1975 † Chlamys Röding, 1798 Chokekenia Santelli &...
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    Callophoca obscura Thecachampsa antiquus Thecachampsa sericodon Chesapecten nefrens Chesapecten coccymelus Isognomon sp. Ecphora Architectonica trilineata...
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    terrestrial fossil) Mammuthus primigenius 2014 Virginia Cenozoic scallop Chesapecten jeffersonius 1993 Washington Pleistocene Columbian mammoth Mammuthus...
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    investigations. Bivalves, including Glycymeris subovata, Chesapecten jeffersonius, Chesapecten madisonius, Mercenaria tridacnoides, Panopera reflexa, Chama...
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    Dinosaur tracks were discovered at Oak Hill in the 1920s. The scallop Chesapecten jeffersonius is the Virginia state fossil. No Precambrian fossils are...
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    Leptophoca proxima Prophoca sp. Thecachampsa antiquus Thecachampsa sericodon Chesapecten nefrens Chesacardium Euspira heros Mariacolpus octonnaria Macrocallista...
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