Euomphalus latus
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Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Eogastropoda
Order: Euomphalina
Family: Euomphalidae
Genus: Euomphalus (Sowerby, 1814)
Species: Euomphalus latus (Hall, 1858)
Trochoid dextral specimen with three visible whorls that are heavily encrusted with sediment. Spire is fairly flat. Prominent selenizone.
Specifications
| Object name | Euomphalus latus |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2018-0572 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Eogastropoda |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Carboniferous Subperiod: Mississipian Epoch: Lower Mississipian Age: Osagean |
| Numeric age | 348 Mya |
| Origin | Sedalia, Missouri, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 1 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- J. Sowerby. 1814. The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or colored figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. Parts IX to XIV. The mineral conchology of Great Britain 1(9-14):97-178