Trepospira illinoisensis
UNB-2018-0559Fossils » Eukaryote » Animalia » Mollusca » Gastropoda » Orthogastropoda
Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Murchisoniia
Family: Gosseletininae
Genus: Trepospira (Ulrich and W. H. Scofield, 1897)
Species: Trepospira illinoisensis (Worthen, 1884)
Trochoid dextral specimen with four whorls. Prominent transverse nodes alone the suture of the whorls composing the spire. Aperture is not visible.
Specifications
| Object name | Trepospira illinoisensis |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2018-0559 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Carboniferous Subperiod: Pennsylvanian Epoch: Upper Pennsylvanian Age: Virgilian |
| Numeric age | 303 Mya |
| Origin | Stephens County, Texas, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 1 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- A. H. Worthen. 1884. Descriptions of two new species of Crustacea, fifty-one species of Mollusca, and three species of Crinoids, from the Carboniferous formations of Illinois and adjacent states. Bulletin of the Illinois State Museum of Natural History 2:1-27
- E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081