Pterorytis umbifer

By MikeR (edited)

• September 25, 2016

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca Cuvier, 1797
Class: Gastropoda Cuvier 1797
Order: Neogastropoda Thiele 1929
Family: Muricidae Rafinesque 1815
Genus: Pterorytis
Species: Pterorytis umbifer
Author Citation (Conrad, 1832)

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Pliocene
International Age: Piacenzian

Stratigraphy

Chowan River Formation
Edenhouse Member

Provenance

Collector: Michael Reagin
Date Collected: 05/24/2013
Acquired by: Field Collection

Dimensions

Length: 46 mm

Location

Wiccacon River
Hertford County
North Carolina
United States

• chowan river formation
• edenhouse member
• mr 10239-1028
• muricidae
• north carolina
• piacenzian
• pliocene

Comments

Typically I would not photograph an imperfect specimen however this is a species that neither Campbell or Ward and Gilinsky list from the Chowan River Formation.

References

Campbell, Lyle. 1993. Pliocene Molluscs from the Yorktown and Chowan River Formations in Virginia. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication 127.

Ward, L. W., and Gilinsky, N. L. 1993. Molluscan assemblage of the Chowan River Formation, Part A. Biostratigraphic analysis of the Chowan River Formation (Upper Pliocene) and adjoining units, the Moore House Member of the Yorktown Formation (upper Pliocene) and the James City Formation (Lower Pleistocene): Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir 3, part A., 33 p.