Salpingostoma expansa
UNB-2018-0545Fossils » Eukaryote » Animalia » Mollusca » Gastropoda
Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Bellerophontida
Family: Bucaniidae
Genus: Salpingostoma (Roemer, 1876)
Species: Salpingostoma expansa (Hall, 1847)
Specimen with three whorls; The large body work is elongated towards the posterior end with the two small whorls that are slightly weathered. Specimen is embedded on sediment. Aperture is not visible.
Specifications
| Object name | Salpingostoma expansa |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2018-0545 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda |
| Composition | Limestone |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Ordovician to Late Ordovician |
| Numeric age | 450 Mya |
| Origin | Richmond, Indiana, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 1 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- J. Hall. 1847. Containing descriptions of the organic remains of the lower division of the New York system (equivalent of the Lower Silurian rocks of Europe). Paleontology of New York 1:1-338
- C. F. Roemer. 1876. Lethaea geognostica oder Beschreibung und Abbildung der für die Gebirgs-Formationen bezeichnendsten Versteinerungen. I. Theil: Lethaea palaeozoica. Atlas