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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca Cuvier, 1797
Class: Gastropoda Cuvier 1797
Order: Neogastropoda Thiele 1929
Family: Fasciolariidae
Genus: Cinctura
Species: Cinctura beaufortensis
Author Citation (Ward & Blackwelder, 1987)
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Quaternary
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Pleistocene
International Age: Gelasian
James City Formation
Collector: Michael Reagin
Date Collected: 05/31/1997
Acquired by: Field Collection
Length: 90 mm
Lee Creek Mine
Beaufort County
North Carolina
United States
New world Tulip shells are now classified to genus by former Subgenus Cinctura.
Reference
Ward, L. W., and Blackwelder, B. W. 1987. Upper Pliocene and lower Pleistocene mollusks of the Lee Creek mine, Aurora, North Carolina, in Ray, C. E., editor, Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, vol. II: Smithson, Contrib. Paleobiol. 61:113-283.
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