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Shell (1,888 square feet)
1625 Richmond Road, Williamsburg, VA
This was formerly Rajavi's Texaco and One-Stop convenience store.
Shells I found on the beaches of Sanibel Island, Florida, during a visit in February, 2018. I found some additional kinds, more familiar to me, & brought a variety home to share with my friends at a nearby nursing
home.
My Dad is a doctor and has an X-ray machine so one thing led to another and we started x-raying stuff around the office. these shells made pretty excellent specimens.
Shell (closed) [2,100 square feet]
360 South Battlefield Boulevard, Chesapeake, VA
Built and opened in 1970, closed in 2017; previously Miller Mart/Miller's branded
a necklace made from various shells collected from the Sea of Cortez by Seri people from Punta Chueca Sonora Mexico
Beaches are always an inspiration with so much going on on the sand, here two simple shells grabbed my attention
- South Senegal
Clinocardium nuttallii (Conrad, 1837) - Nuttall's cockle (ventral view of articulated valves) (public display, Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA)
Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates.
Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood.
The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record.
The Nuttall's cockle shown above is part of the Oregonian Province: "The cool-water Oregonian Province along the Pacific Northwest Coast lies between the frigid Aleutian Province of Alaska and the warmer Southern Californian and Panamic Provinces. Because of harsh coastal conditions, most gastropods do not do well here. Bivalves at quieter depths predominate. The shells are fewer in kinds, lacking the bright colors, but occur in great numbers." [info. from museum signage]
Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Veneroida, Cardiidae
Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed/unspecified
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Fae Thomas
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faethomas@yahoo.com
I did this picture before I did my single shell. I got frustrated and quit before finishing, but my husband urged me to keep at it. I did, and then I saw that an Advanced artist had done nearly the same shells! And much better, I might add. Agh! Oh, well, I figured I may as well upload it since I did finish
. I feel good that I did complete it.
Shell Beaumont Road in 1987/8
This was one of 8 trial sites for DCD, driver control delivery. The special cabinet is situated on the side of the Kiosk and contains a monitor and printer linked to the CMS electronic tank gauge, and emergency phone and the fill point keys
Pecten elegons
Fossilised scallop shells in limestone, dated to around 18 million years old, from Provence.
Gifted by Shell to the Royal Festival Hall
These are TINY shells from Australia. I love them!
Experiment - I might have to do this over again, as it is bugging me at the already!