Description: Chama macerophylla Gmelin, 1791 - interior of right valve of a beachworn leafy jewelbox, 1.2 cm across at its widest. Family Chamidae (Cretaceous to Holocene) - the jewelboxes (a.k.a. rock oysters) are epifaunal, filter-feeding, hard substrate-encrusters in shallow-water, tropical to temperate marine settings. Date: 3 January 2015, 21:26. Source: Chama macerophylla (leafy jewelbox) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 2. Author: James St. John.
PRESERVED_SPECIMEN; Chama sinuosa firma Pilsbry & MacGinty, 1938; Type status: PARATYPE; Identified by:Pilsbry H. A. & Mc Ginty T.; Individual count:1; Event date: N/A
Summary[edit] Description: English: Specimen of shell (Mollusca) from the Gulf of Tonkin, in the Beijing Museum of Natural History (2017). Collection belonging to the Natural History Museum of Guangxi. Date: 13 July 2017, 12:44:26. Source: Own work. Author: Bjoertvedt. Camera location39° 52′ 53.37″ N, 116° 23′ 37.7″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth 39.881492; 116.393806.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Fossil valve of Pseudochama gryphina from Pliocene of Italy, on display at the Museo Paleontologico, Asti. Date: 24 June 2015. Source: Own work. Author: Hectonichus.
Summary[edit] Description: Français : Un bivalve Chama croceata à la Réunion. Date: 5 November 2014, 09:57:33. Source: The uploader on Wikimedia Commons received this from the author/copyright holder. Author: Philippe Bourjon. Permission(Reusing this file): : This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. The Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an Volunteer Response Team (VRT) member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2014091910006014. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2014091910006014.
PRESERVED_SPECIMEN; Chama sinuosa firma Pilsbry & MacGinty, 1938; Type status: PARATYPE; Identified by:Pilsbry H. A. & Mc Ginty T.; Individual count:1; Event date: N/A
Ceramic grenades "tetsuhau" found in a Mongolian shipwreck sunk off the Japanese Takashima Island in 1274. The ship was part of the armada of Kublai Khan attempting to conquer Japan. Balanidae (Crustacea: Cirripedia) and lower side valve specimens of Chamidae (Bivalvia) colonized the surface of the objects.