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Volute Snail
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Taxonomy
Volute Snail
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: clade Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Scaphella
Species: Scaphella virginiana
Author Citation Dall, 1890
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: 6 cm
Diameter: 3 cm
Location
Matoaka Beach
Calvert County
Maryland
United States
- calvert cliffs
- calvert county
- chesapeake bay
- choptan
- drum cliff member
- fossil
- maryland
- matoaka
- miocene
- shell
- snail
- st leonard
- volute
Comments
This specimen was made incredibly soft by the surrounding matrix. The thin veneer of glossy coloration has worn away, but can be seen on this specimen, which came from the same 2 ft x 1ft x 1ft block of matrix that fell out of the cliff into the bay. Half a dozen of these were collected from that and one other small, adjacent block that day, along with more than two dozen other species.
Layer originally designated Shattuck Zone 18.
Donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
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