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FS361 Murex Shell

1.0 cm. Long x 0.7 cm. Wide x 0.6 cm. High

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Classification: Metazoa, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Neogastropoda, Muricidae, Typhis, linguiferus

Description: Fossil murex shell from 18MYA Chipola Formation deposits. Found in gray clay/sand banks of Tenmile Creek. Murex is a carnivorous predatory gastropod.

Age: Miocene Epoch

Location Found: United States, Florida, Tenmile Creek near Clarksville, FL

Found by: Ed DeRouin

Custodian: fossilweb

Identified by: Ed DeRouin

References: The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, Part VIII, p. 527 and Plate LIII.