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Ecphora Snail
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Taxonomy
Ecphora 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
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Miocene
Stratigraphy
Choptank Formation
Provenance
Collector: Heather Siple
Date Collected: 07/03/2018
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Length: 2.8 cm
Width: 3.4 cm
Height: 3.3 cm
Location
Matoaka Beach
Calvert County
Maryland
United States
- calvert cliffs
- calvert county
- choptank
- drum cliff
- ecphora
- gastropod
- leonard
- maryland
- matoaka beach
- miocene
- murex
- saint
- st
Comments
Collected on the beach after a storm.
This is an index fossil for the Drum Cliff member of the Choptank Formation, Shattuck Zone 18. Choptank is the dominant formation at Matoaka Beach.
Donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
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