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Back in the Cretaceous, these shallow reefs were dominated by a very, very weird bivalve that’s called a rudist bivalve.

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Okay. Now we would just strike it rich if we saw some rudist clams.

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Interesting structure.

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These certainly are different from what we’ve been seeing, Patty.

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Chris, I think you called it. Oh wow.

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That looks definitely fossiliferous.

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Oh boy. You are so right. Look at the ribbing on this. That’s definitely a bivalve shell.

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Yeah, you can see the actual flute. Yeah, all you fossil hunters at home, I hope you’re enjoying this.

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That looks a lot like the pictures of rudists I’ve seen, but…

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I’m agreeing with you, Patty, you know, because there are different forms and they can have these sort of spiral forms, too.