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Ecphora Snail
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Taxonomy
Murex Snail
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Ecphora
Species: Ecphora choptankensis
Author Citation Petuch, 1988
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Epoch: Miocene
Stratigraphy
Choptank Formation
Drum Cliff Member
Provenance
Collector: Heather Siple
Date Collected: 07/03/2018
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Length: 3.5 cm
Width: 4.0 cm
Height: 3.2 cm
Location
Matoaka Beach
Calvert County
Maryland
United States
- calvert cliffs
- chesapeake bay
- choptank
- drum cliff
- ecphora
- ecphora megane
- gastropod
- leonard
- maryland
- matoaka
- miocene
- saint
- st
Comments
Unusual coloration. Typically these are red, sometimes with buff patches, but not usually all buff. The broken areas show the buff color to be a layer on the outside as there is red showing through the breakage.
Collected from fallen cliff matrix in the bay containing index fossils of the Drum Cliff Member, Shattuck Zone 18.
Donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History
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