Bellerophon sublaevis
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Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Bellerophontida
Family: Bellerophonidae
Genus: Bellerophon (de Montfort, 1808)
Species: Bellerophon sublaevis (Potiez and Michaud, 1838)
Two specimens, labeled a and b. Large whorls that are curved inwards. Thin growth lines and prominent selenizone. Elongated apertures that are infilled with sediment.
Specifications
| Object name | Bellerophon sublaevis |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2018-0392 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Carboniferous Subperiod: Mississippian |
| Numeric age | 358 Mya |
| Origin | Mississippi Valley, Mississippi, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 2 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- V. L. Y. Potiez and A. L. G. Michaud. 1838. Galerie des mollusques, ou catalogue methodique, descriptif et coquilles du Museum de Douai. Atlas
- P. D. de Montfort. 1808. Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique des coquilles; offfrant leurs figures, leur arrangement générique, leurs descriptions caractéristiques, leurs noms; ainsi que leur synonymie en plusieurs langues. Coquilles univalves, cloisonnées 1