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 Miocene predatory sea snail from the family Muricidae and the official state fossil of Maryland. These snails preyed on bivalves, using their radula to bore holes into shells. Fossils are found in Miocene marine deposits along the East Coast of the U.S. Originally misidentified as Ecphora quadricostata, Maryland specimens were correctly classified as E. gardnerae in 1987 by Druid Wilson and later subdivided into subspecies by Ward and Gilinsky in 1988.