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Urosalpinx sp. Gastropod

SITE LOCATION: James City Formation, Beaufort Co., North Carolina, USA
TIME PERIOD: Pleistocene  age  (2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago)
Data: Urosalpinx, common name the eastern or Atlantic oyster drill, is a small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Urusalpinx