Name/Title
Ship WormEntry/Object ID
96.01.031Description
One piece of petrified wood covered with boring holes from the bivalve genus Teredo. The clams bore into the wood before it petrified, making round tube-like holes.
Preserved Teredo valves (and/or pallets?) are present within the specimen.
Steve Miller described it as: "(1) large conglomerate of ship-worm shell fossils." Steve Miller also claimed this specimen was Eocene in age, but this may be just repeating only the first half of the original catalog's "Eocene to Recent" age range for the genus (which is incorrect, according to fossilworks, which has the FAD of the genus in the late Jurassic).
Phylum: Mollusca
Family: Terdinidae
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myida
Genus: Teredo
Common Name: Ship Worms
Age: Eocene (Dubious?)
Location: Unknown. Taxon has a world-wide distribution.
Mineral Information (Calcite)
Crystal System: Hexagonal
Fracture: Conchoidal
Grain Size: Fine
Hardness: 3 Calcite
Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Luster: Vitreous
Class: Gastropoda
Phylum: Mollusca
Rock Origin: Terrestrial
Rock Type: Sedimentary
Streak: whiteCollection
Fossil CollectionAcquisition
Accession
96.01Source or Donor
Crater Rock MuseumAcquisition Method
GiftNotes
"WS Mc Neal" is listed after the accession number in the physical catalog.Dimensions
Width
4 inDepth
2-1/2 inLength
9-1/2 inLocation
Location
Shelf
CS-E-3Room
Curation StorageBuilding
Crater Rock MuseumCategory
StorageMoved By
Jillian Mather KettleyDate
March 5, 2024
