Conus (Mioconus)  sanctaemariae (Petuch, 1988)

 

 

 

M. sanctaemariae (Petuch, 1988) differs from M. deluvianus in being a broader, less elongated shell with a much wider shoulder and lower spire, and which lacks heavy spiral threads on the anterior end.

 

Type specimen: ANSP 52887, a shell. Its type locality is Chancellor Point [St. Marys Fm], which is in a Miocene coastal sandstone in the St Marys Formation of Maryland.

 

 

 

Mioconus sanctaemariae
mm. 40
St. Mary's Formation at Chancellor Point, Maryland, Tortonian Miocene  

 

 

 

 

 

 Bibliografia Consultata

  

·        (1) - Edward J. Petuch,  Mardie Drolshagen, 2010  “Molluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene”

·        (2) - E. J. Petuch. 1988. Neogene History of Tropical American Mollusks 1-217

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