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Catalog ID: CG-0185
Shansiella carbonaria
Taxonomy
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Orthogastropoda |
| Family: | Portlockiellidae |
| Genus: | Shansiella |
| Species: | carbonaria |
Geology
| Period: | Carboniferous |
| Group: | Conemaugh |
| Formation: | Glenshaw |
| Stratum: | Pine Creek limestone |
Specimen is medium in size, consisting of 3 complete whorls. The apeture is broken with a well-defined C-shape showing a thick shell wall. Corded ornamentation is visible, at times covered/filled with matrix. It appears that a portion of the specimen was exposed and chemically altered, making it light in color.
Taxonomic Authorities
- Class Gastropoda Cuvier, 1795
- Family Portlockiellidae Batten, 1956
- Genus Shansiella Yin, 1932
- Species Shansiella carbonaria (Norwood & Pratten, 1855)
References
- Batten, R. L. (1956). Some new pleurotomarian gastropods from the Permian of west Texas. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 46(2): 42−45.
- Norwood, J. G., and Pratten, H. 1855. Notice of fossils from the Carboniferous Series of the western states, belonging to the genera Spirifer, Bellerophon, Pleurotomaria, Macrocheilus, Natica, and Loxonema, with descriptions of eight new characteristic species. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Second Series, 3:71–77.
- Yin, T. H., 1932. Gastropoda of the Penchi and Taiyuan Series of North China, Palaeontologica Sinica, Series B.