darrow Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Picked this up yesterday in Galveston Bay dredge spoils. Beaumont formation, late Pleistocene age. I typically resist the urge to being home any more shells but this one it unlike any I've seen over the years from this site or others I've visited alone the upper Texas Gulf Coast. I've not been able to identify it and hoping someone can point me in the right direction. The only shells of this form listed in online references for the Texas coast are very small around 1" or so in comparison to the 5-6" length of this one if it were complete. Darrow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earendil Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Looks almost like a Turritellid. Beautiful shell! "Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell" -From The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 It is Terebridae. Looks to be Terebra taurina more commonly found in deep water LINK. 4 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 ...looks like a good match. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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