2.1" Ecphora Gardnerae Gastropod Fossil Shell Lee Creek Miocene Epoch North Carolina

Location: Lee Creek, North Carolina

Weight: 0.9 Ounces 

Dimensions: 2.1 Inches Long, 1.8 Inches Wide, 1.4 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 in the Muricidae family and the official state fossil of Maryland. These snails were carnivorous, using their radula to drill holes in bivalve shells to feed on soft tissues. E. gardnerae lived during the Miocene epoch (23–5.3 million years ago), with fossils primarily found in Miocene 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 and later divided into subspecies by Ward and Gilinsky in 1988.