Salpingostoma expansa
UNB-2018-0574Fossils » Eukaryote » Animalia » Mollusca » Gastropoda
Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Bellerophontida
Family: Bucaniidae
Genus: Salpingostoma (Roemer, 1876)
Species: Salpingostoma expansa (Hall, 1847)
Small planispiral dextral specimen with three whorls visible. Umbilicus is encrusted with sediment. Promenient ribs are visible on the outer most whorl. Thin transverse ornamentation is visible on the outer most whorl. Rounded aperture that is infilled with sediment. Thin selenizone visible on the outer whorl.
Specifications
| Object name | Salpingostoma expansa |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2018-0574 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| 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