NMITA: Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America 

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Bairdoppilata oblongata (Bold, 1946)

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SEM Photograph: (Bold, 1988, pl. 1, fig. 16) Scale is 0.25 mm. Specimen HVH 10497 (NMB Locality 16970: Río Cana, Gurabo Formation). Right valve.

Morphologic Description: An elongate-ovate species with strongly convex dorsal and ventral margins; anterior end very obliquely-rounded, posterior end somewhat knoblike.

Holotype: GIRU S 12972 (Location: Lomas La Cruz, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, La Cruz Formation, Pliocene).

Distribution:

• Upper Miocene and Pliocene: Cuba, Dominican Republic.