Loxonema sp.

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Description

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Order: Murchisoniia Family: Loxonematidae Genus: Loxonema (Phillips, 1841) Five samples, labelled a to e; Two samples are casts embedded into the sediment, two specimens are of molds and one specimen of the left valve of a bivalve. The cast and mold are counterparts from one another. The two samples of the cast are turriform dextral shells with three to five whorls. One sample has a small circular aperture. Faint transverse growth lines are visible on the whorls. Pyritization of the specimens is visible.

Specifications

Object name	Loxonema sp.
ID	UNB-2018-0565
Legal status	Permanent collection
Category	Fossil
Classification	Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Composition	Pyrite, Limestone
Age	Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Devonian Epoch: Middle Devonian Age: Givetian
Numeric age	387.7 Mya
Origin	Alden, New York, U.S.A.
Pieces	5
Partial	No
Measurements	3.3cm x 2.1cm x 1.3cm 3.3cm x 2.2cm x 1.7cm 2.5cm x 2.3cm x 1.3cm 2.4cm x 2.1cm x 0.9cm 1.6cm x 1.3cm x 0.7cm

Map of Origin

Publications

J. Phillips. 1841. Figures and descriptions of the Palaeozoic fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset; observed in the course of the Ordinance Geological Survey of that district. Geological Society of London