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Moon Snail
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Taxonomy
Moon Snail
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Naticidae
Genus: Euspira
Species: Euspira heros
Author Citation Say, 1822
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Miocene
Stratigraphy
Choptank Formation
Drum Cliff Member
Biostratigraphy
Shattuck Zone 17
Provenance
Collector: Heather Siple
Date Collected: 07/03/2017
Acquired by: Field Collection
Location
St Leonard
Calvert County
Maryland
United States
- calvert cliffs
- chespeke bay
- choptank
- gastropod
- leonard
- maryland
- matoaka
- miocene
- moon
- plum point
- saint
- shell
- snail
- st
Comments
Lunatia heros is a predatory snail that drilled holes in other mollusks' shells to eat the contents. One often finds hole that they left behind in the surrounding fossil shells.
The shells of L. heros are variable, having more or less extended spirals, more or less globoular shape, etc.
This specimen was donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
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