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  • Ficus papyratia

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    Taxonomy

    Fig Shell

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Mollusca
    Class: Gastropoda
    Order: Littorinimorpha
    Family: Ficidae
    Genus: Ficus
    Species: Ficus papyratia
    Author Citation Say, 1822

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Cenozoic
    Period: Quaternary
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Pleistocene
    International Age: Gelasian

    Stratigraphy

    Waccamaw Formation

    Provenance

    Collector: Don Rideout
    Date Collected: 09/16/2017
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Length: 33 mm

    Location

    Private Marl Pit
    Colombus County
    North Carolina
    United States

    Comments

    Self collected from a bucket of matrix brought home from a marl / shell pit in Columbus County NC. A very nice specimen.

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    FossilDAWG

    Very nice! :wub: Those thin shelled Ficus are hard to find in such good condition.

     

    Don

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    sixgill pete

    Thanks Don. The few others of this species I have found from this site are in terrible shape. I was very excited when I found it.

     

    Don

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