Cymatosyrinx lunata, FIC1303


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Description

Heavily ornamented, isolated snail shell. Shell is high spired and drill shaped with a flattened area just below the suture before the whorl becomes inflated. Each whorl is sculptured with twelve strong oblique axial ribs. The aperture is ovate to D-shaped with a short, but distinct siphonal canal. The outer lip of the aperture is broken in this specimen however a large callus is present at the inner lip.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Paleontology


Details

Date
1805
Creator
Tuomey, Michael, 1805-1857
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Waccamaw River , Horry County, South Carolina, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists