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Can this large gastropod be ID'd by aperture?


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This is the largest gastropod I've found and with intact aperture to boot. Is it larger version of the smaller ones?  Is that a turritella next to it? 

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1, 2, 4, 6, and 7 look to be moon snails, i.e., Naticids.

The ribs running in the same direction as the spire of the tall-spired shell in the last photo makes me think that it is not a Turritella.

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I can't give you anything definite but I was thinking the same thing about the large one at the start - 'naticiform' at least.  Nice specimen, anyway!

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Have to agree with the others. May want to look at Gyroides as the genus of the large one. The high spired one in its aperture does not look like Turritella, but I do t have a good suggestion for that one based on looking through Akers and Akers, Texas Cretaceous Gastropods.  

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Yep Gyrodes LINK.

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