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Updated: August 18, 2024
The Hippopus found here differs from the maculatus already known by the much greater elevation of its shell. The large Tridachna is the Tr. squamosa Lam.
Judd remarks that as Ammonites clypei-formis and Terebratula hippopus characterise the Middle Neocomian of the Continent, it is to this stage that the Tealby series containing the same fossils may be assigned.
It is destructive not only to oysters but to clams, mussels, barnacles, snails, worms, and small crustacea as well. The variety of sea life about the great reef is legion. Among the bivalves the most remarkable for the size and weight of the shells are the tridachna and hippopus. In some localities they are so numerous that their shells have been burned to make lime.
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