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Teredo sp., Shipworm(s)

genus Teredo Linnaeus, 1758

Trace fossils: Teredolite(s)

• Modern species: Early Cretaceous - Present (145.5 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, family Teredinidae

• Distribution (Tubes)
• Miocene: Miyagi, Nagano, Gunma, Tochigi, Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane
• Miocene-Pliocene: Yamagata
• Quaternary: Hiroshima
• Pleistocene: Kanagawa, Aichi