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I found this gastropod imprint a couple weeks ago in Tertiary sediment (geologic maps) 

I found this gastropod online (Falsifusus ludovicianus) which lived during the same time period and has similar ridges and those tiny crown marking near the top. 
Let me know if this seems reasonable 

 

(I put the pictures of the gastropod I found online in the comments below.)

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Close but no cigar.... you are on the right track but there still are too many differences.  “Tertiary” covers a lot of time.  You need to figure out what formation it is from to get more specific and then find a list of what is known from that formation. 

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49 minutes ago, erose said:

Close but no cigar.... you are on the right track but there still are too many differences.  “Tertiary” covers a lot of time.  You need to figure out what formation it is from to get more specific and then find a list of what is known from that formation. 

Maybe a more general term such as Fasciolariidae the family. I think that is a certainty 

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Those could be related but like erose says, most likely too different to be the same species or even genus.

I have a snail from my local Upper Cretaceous over here on Van Island that is almost a dead ringer for yours, but I don't have a name for it and it's likely that it doesn't even have one yet... but I'll bet they are related.

 

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22 minutes ago, Wrangellian said:

Those could be related but like erose says, most likely too different to be the same species or even genus.

I have a snail from my local Upper Cretaceous over here on Van Island that is almost a dead ringer for yours, but I don't have a name for it and it's likely that it doesn't even have one yet... but I'll bet they are related.

 

I'm not sure about the OP's one, but could this one be Anchura sp? 

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10 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I'm not sure about the OP's one, but could this one be Anchura sp? 

That's what some here have suggested, but others (the people at the provincial museum, I think it was) have doubted that ID.

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Here is a link to a well studied Middle Eocene site in Texas we all know as Whiskey Bridge. Scroll down and look at the various gastropods illustrated. That is only a FRACTION of the genera and species you can find at that local. The list of molluscs alone is close to 200.  https://www.hgs.org/sites/default/files/MGB_FLIS_2_23_15.pdf

 

Without more specific stratigraphy we can barely even offer a SWAG on this. It is a nicely preserved specimen but you need to do some further research. 

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3 hours ago, erose said:

Here is a link to a well studied Middle Eocene site in Texas we all know as Whiskey Bridge. Scroll down and look at the various gastropods illustrated. That is only a FRACTION of the genera and species you can find at that local. The list of molluscs alone is close to 200.  https://www.hgs.org/sites/default/files/MGB_FLIS_2_23_15.pdf

 

Without more specific stratigraphy we can barely even offer a SWAG on this. It is a nicely preserved specimen but you need to do some further research. 

I made two posts of this gastropod and only updated one of them. So let me update this one too

 

After reading through an old 1975 PDF of the Eocene marine species of the formation, I have come to a conclusion.
The only shell that looks similar according to this PDF of the fossils found in the Blakeley Formation in Tukwila Washington is the
Drillia Chehalisensis

And by pushing a mold into the fossil, I can see that they are very similar. 
Thank you all for your contributions : )
Let me know if this seems wrong to you.

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Is it possible to prep your specimen? If it is, I recommend that you take it out of the matrix and uncover the mouth of the gastropod. That could definitely help us in a more certain ID of the shell :) 

 

On 2/15/2019 at 5:36 AM, Zenmaster6 said:

gastropod imprint

So I suppose you're saying that no shell material is left then? And by imprint, do you mean it's a positive or negative one (convex or concave)? The picture makes it look really convex to me, but if it isn't then I'm just seeing stuff wrong :P 

 

Here is a paper I found while googling "Drillia chehalisensis"; is this the one you used? I personally don't find the species to be a very good match to yours... 

However, from that same paper, what do you think about "Rimella canalifera" (plate II)?

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7 hours ago, Max-fossils said:

Is it possible to prep your specimen? If it is, I recommend that you take it out of the matrix and uncover the mouth of the gastropod. That could definitely help us in a more certain ID of the shell :) 

 

So I suppose you're saying that no shell material is left then? And by imprint, do you mean it's a positive or negative one (convex or concave)? The picture makes it look really convex to me, but if it isn't then I'm just seeing stuff wrong :P 

 

Here is a paper I found while googling "Drillia chehalisensis"; is this the one you used? I personally don't find the species to be a very good match to yours... 

However, from that same paper, what do you think about "Rimella canalifera" (plate II)?

I agree Rimella canalifera definitely looks similar. They both do indeed look familiar. I wouldn't be sure how to separate Drillia Chehalisensis and Rimella Canalifera

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From the paper:

Drillia chehalisensis

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Rimella canalifera

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They look pretty different to me. And the latter looks a lot more like your shell. Especially the image you posted in your last reply looks a lot like your specimen :) 

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