Description
Twelve turbinate, marine, fossil snail shells. The shells are white and tan in color. The shells appear to have between six to ten whorls. There are subtle sutures separating each whorl. Each whorl exhibits vertical, slightly raised costae that travel around the outside of each whorl. The shells are dextral, with ""teardrop"" shaped apertures.
Subject
Details
- Date
- 1810
- Creator
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Contributor
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- People
- Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
- Mazyck, William Gaillard, 1846-1942
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
- Coverage
- Wando River, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists
