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Cretaceous Fossil Gallery - Gastropods (snails)

Mollusca, Gastropoda

(Phylum, Class)

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Fossil identification by Jo Cox unless otherwise noted

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Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea

(Order, Superfamily)

Cerithiinae

(Subfamily)

Cerithium bosquense

Period: lower Cretaceous

Group: Fredericksburg

Formation: Walnut / Comanche Peak Undifferentiated

Location: Taylor Co. Texas

Collection: Hardin-Simmons University

Size: 91 mm tall

Cerithium bosquense.jpg (124644 bytes)

 

Turritellinae

(Subfamily)

Turritella seriatim-granulata (internal casts)

Period: lower Cretaceous

Group: Fredericksburg

Formation: Walnut / Comanche Peak Undifferentiated

Location:Taylor Co., Texas, "White Mines Gravel"

Collection: Jo Cox

Size: ? mm tall

Turritella 2.jpg (135133 bytes)

2 specimens

 

Turritella sp.

Period: lower Cretaceous

Group: Fredericksburg

Formation: Walnut / Comanche Peak Undifferentiated

Location: Taylor Co. Texas, "White Mines Gravel"

Collection: Jo Cox

Size: ? mm long block

Turritella.jpg (58717 bytes)

 

Turritella seriatim-granulata (internal cast)

Period: lower Cretaceous

Group: Fredericksburg

Formation: Walnut / Comanche Peak Undifferentiated

Location: Taylor Co. Texas

Collection: Hardin-Simmons University

Size: 42 mm tall

Turritella seriatim-granulata (cast).jpg (98890 bytes)

 

Turritella seriatim-granulata (exterior cast)

Period: lower Cretaceous

Group: Fredericksburg

Formation: Walnut / Comanche Peak Undifferentiated

Location: ?

Collection: Hardin-Simmons University

Size: 48 mm tall

Turritella seriatim-granulata.jpg (110829 bytes)

 

Turritella sp.

Period: lower Cretaceous

Location: ?

Collection: Judie Ostlien

Size: 24 mm tall

Turritella sp 1a.jpg (83808 bytes)

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Caenogastropoda, Naticoidae

(Order, Superfamily)

Gyrodinae

(Subfamily)

Gyrodes sp.: (internal cast)

Period: lower Cretaceous

Group: Fredericksburg

Formation: Walnut / Comanche Peak Undifferentiated

Location: Taylor Co. Texas, "White Mines Gravel"

Collection: Jo Cox

Size: 19 mm long

Gyrodes sp.jpg (235688 bytes)

 

Polinicinae

(Subfamily)

Lunatia pendernalis: (internal cast)

Period: lower Cretaceous

Group: Fredericksburg

Formation: Walnut / Comanche Peak Undifferentiated

Location: Taylor Co. Texas, south of Merkel

Collection: Jo Cox

Size: 57 mm long

Lunatia pedernalis.jpg (281227 bytes)

 

Lunatia pendernalis: (internal cast)

Period: lower Cretaceous

Group: Fredericksburg

Formation: Walnut / Comanche Peak Undifferentiated

Location: Taylor Co. Texas

Collection: Hardin-Simmons University

Size: 141 mm long

Lunatia (Polinices) pedernalis (cast).jpg (119044 bytes)

 

Naticinae

(Subfamily)

Tylostoma tumidum: (internal cast)

Period: lower Cretaceous

Group: Fredericksburg

Formation: Walnut / Comanche Peak Undifferentiated 

Location: Taylor Co., Texas

Collection: Hardin-Simmons University

Size: 61 mm tall

Tylostoma tumidum (cast) 1b.jpg (141978 bytes)

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Caenogastropoda, Stromboidea, Arrhoginae

(Order, Superfamily, Subfamily)

Drepanochilus (Anchura) sp.: (internal cast)

Period: lower Cretaceous

Group: Fredericksburg

Formation: Walnut / Comanche Peak Undifferentiated

Location: Taylor Co., Texas, "White Mines Gravel"

Collection: Jo Cox

Size: 38 mm tall

Drepanochilus (Anchura) sp.jpg (127847 bytes)

 

Drepanochilus (Anchura) sp.:

Period: lower Cretaceous

Group: Fredericksburg

Formation: Walnut / Comanche Peak Undifferentiated

Location: Taylor Co., Texas

Collection: Hardin-Simmons University

Size: 58 mm long

Drepanochilus (Anchura) sp 1a.jpg (121415 bytes)   Drepanochilus (Anchura) sp 1b.jpg (137625 bytes)

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Heterostropha, Nerineoidea, Itieriidae

(Order, Superfamily, Family)

Peruviella dolium: covered with calcite crystals

Period: lower Cretaceous

Location: Coryell Co., Texas

Collection: Jo Cox>

Size: 33 mm long

Peruviella dolium 1a.jpg (94754 bytes)   Peruviella dolium 1b.jpg (99346 bytes)

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