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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca Cuvier, 1797
Class: Gastropoda Cuvier 1797
Order: Neogastropoda Thiele 1929
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Trigonostoma
Species: Trigonostoma elizabethae
Author Citation Olsson & Petit, 1964
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Quaternary
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Pleistocene
International Age: Gelasian
James City Formation
Collector: Michael Reagin
Date Collected: 05/31/1997
Acquired by: Field Collection
Length: 40 mm
Lee Creek Mine
Beaufort County
North Carolina
United States
Trigonostoma elizabethae was named by Olsson & Petit (1964). Axel Olsson was an oil geologist who published in paleontology while Richard "Dick" Petit who recently passed away was a natural history bookseller who became the foremost authority on the family Cancellariidae. In describing T. elizabethae they noted that the shell has a nodose shoulder with two very nodose primary cords on the body whorl in addition to less nodose secondary cords.
Reference
Olsson, A.A., and R.E. Petit. 1964. Some Neogene Mollusca from Florida and the Carolinas, Bulletins of American Paleontology 47(217): pages 509-574, plates 77-83
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