1.6" Ecphora Gardnerae Gastropod Fossil Shell Lee Creek Miocene Epoch North Carolina
Location: Lee Creek, North Carolina
Weight: 0.5 Ounces
Dimensions: 1.6 Inches Long, 1.6 Inches Wide, 1.3 Inches Thick
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Miocene Epoch, 5.3 million to 23.3 million years old.
Ecphora gardnerae is an extinct predatory sea snail belonging to the family Muricidae and is the official state fossil of Maryland, designated in 1994. These snails were carnivorous, using their radula to bore holes into the shells of bivalves to feed on soft tissues.
E. gardnerae lived during the Miocene epoch (23–5.3 million years ago), with fossils found in marine strata along the East Coast of the United States. Initially misidentified as Ecphora quadricostata, Maryland specimens were reclassified as E. gardnerae in 1987 by Druid Wilson, with subspecies described by Ward and Gilinsky in 1988.
