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  • Conus cookei

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    By MikeR

    Taxonomy

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Mollusca
    Class: Gastropoda
    Order: Neogastropoda
    Family: Conidae
    Genus: Conus
    Species: Conus cookei
    Author Citation Dall, 1916

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Cenozoic
    Period: Paleogene
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Oligocene
    International Age: Rupelian

    Stratigraphy

    undifferentiated residuum

    Provenance

    Collector: Michael Reagin
    Date Collected: 03/16/1985
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Height: 25 mm

    Location

    Pulaski County road cut
    Pulaski County
    Georgia
    United States

    Comments

    Silica pseudomorph.

    Go to fossils Gastropods

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    Macrophyseter

    Macrophyseter

    Posted

    Looking at the species name, did you notice that even thou cookei probably meant "from cooke", the species name literally sounds like Conis cookie? And that would actually sound like a real cookie lol

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