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FS346 Tower Shell

5.2 cm. Long x 1.5 cm. Wide x 1.5 cm. High

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Classification: Metazoa, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Sorbeoconcha, Turritellidae, Turritella, subgrandifera

Description: Fossil "tower shell" from 18MYA Chipola Formation deposits. Found in gray clay/sand banks of Tenmile Creek.

Age: Miocene Epoch

Location Found: United States, Florida, Tenmile Creek near Clarksville, FL

Found by: Ed DeRouin

Custodian: fossilweb

Identified by: Ed DeRouin

References: The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, Part VIII, pp. 590-591 and Plate LVII.