Plicatula hunterae is an extinct species in the family

Plicatulidae The Plicatulidae are a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks, known commonly as kitten's paws or kittenpaws.Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. ''A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies.'' New York: Houghton Mi ...

. It is present in the

Tamiami Formation The Tamiami Formation is a Late Miocene to Pliocene geologic formation in the southwest Florida peninsula. Age Period (geology), Period: Neogene Epoch (geology), Epoch: Late Miocene to Pliocene Faunal stage: Clarendonian through Blancan ~13.06 ...

and Caloosahatchee Formation of south

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. It was alive during the late

Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch (geology), epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fin ...

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q106570502 Plicatulidae Prehistoric bivalves of North America