Description
An operculum of a marine snail shell. The glossy exterior has spiral, swirl patterns in tans and browns. The matte interior is beige and is marked with two large spiral raised ribs with nodules. The spaces surrounding the ribs and nodules are covered in sediment.
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.
- Relations
- Historic Southern Naturalists