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FS367 Miocene Dove Snail Shell

1.5 cm. Long x 0.6 cm. Wide x 0.6 cm. High

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Classification: Metazoa, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Sorbeoconcha, Columbellidae, Mitrella, ischna mitrodita

Description: Fossil "dove snail" shell from 18MYA Chipola Formation deposits, found in gray clay in the river banks of Tenmile Creek.

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 VIII, p. 512 and Plate LII.