Description: Fossil "turrid" shell, a type of "drill" snail, from 18MYA Chipola Formation deposits. Found in gray clay/sand banks of Tenmile Creek. Turrids are predatory sea snails.
Age: Miocene Epoch
Location Found: United States, Florida, Tenmile Creek near Clarksville, FL
Found by: Kathy Patterson
Custodian: fossilweb
Identified by: Ed DeRouin
References: The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, Part VI, pp. 310-311 and Plate XL.