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From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Melongenidae Tropochasca petiti Olsson, 1967 Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: SMR Phase 10 Pit, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Resembles a Echinofulgur but with a more compact body, shorter spire and twisted siphonal canal suggesting Melongenidae. An extinct genera with no modern analog to compare with.-
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From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Melongenidae Melongena consors (G.B. Sowerby II, 1850) Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: SMR Phase 10 Pit, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Large and highly variable which has led to taxonomic splitting. Inflated body whorl with variable rows of spines. Ranges from the Lower Miocene/Pliocene Caribbean and the Upper Pliocene Florida deposits.-
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From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Melongenidae Melongena consors (G.B. Sowerby II, 1850) Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: SMR Phase 8 Pit, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Shown is a smaller individual with three rows of shoulder spines to compare with the large adult specimen MR 9473-1017.-
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From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order Neogastropoda Family Melongenidae Melongena subcorona Heilprin, 1886 Statigraphy: Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation Location: APAC Pit, Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: Extinct Notes: Similar to the recent Melongena corona. M. corona has shoulder spines that point upward, while M. subcoronata point outward.-
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