Retispira leda
UNB-2018-0647Fossils » Eukaryote » Animalia » Mollusca » Gastropoda
Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Bellerophontida
Family: Bellerophontidae
Genus: Retispira (Knight, 1945)
Species: Retispira leda (Hall, 1859)
One specimen of a conical shell embedded into the sediment. Large rounded apex that slightly curves towards the posterior end. Thin growth lines are visible. Aperture is embedded into the sediment and not visible.
Specifications
| Object name | Retispira leda |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2018-0647 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda |
| Composition | Limestone |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Devonian Epoch: Middle Devonian Age: Givetian |
| Numeric age | 387.7 Mya |
| Origin | East Bethany, New York, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 1 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- J. Hall. 1859. Notes and observations upon the fossils of the Goniatite Limestone, in the Marcellus shale of the Hamilton group, and those of the Goniatite beds of Rockford, Indiana, with some analogous forms from the Hamilton Group proper. Annual report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York on the State Cabinet of Natural History and the Historical and Antiquarian collection annexed thereto 13:95-112
- J. B. Knight. 1945. Some new genera of the Bellerophontacea. Journal of Paleontology 19:333-340