Turritella like mollusc

[Hunter Thurmond]

I found this inside another mollusc shell from either the Eastover formation or the Yorktown formation. The scale is millimeters.

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[Victor Perez]

I don’t know the species, but I think it’s in the family Terebridae, commonly referred to as the auger snails.

[Sadie Mills]

@hunter-thurmond have you used the Digital Atlas of Ancient Life? It is an online ID guide, and has a Neogene guide for the Southeast US.

http://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/

 

There are a lot of gastropods to sort through, but this one caught my eye as similar to your specimen:

http://neogeneatlas.net/species/turbonilla-abrupta/

I would look through the others too, since I just did a brief glance through some of the snail families!

[Hunter Thurmond]

Thanks Saddie and Victor!

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