Favartia cellulosa
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Gastropoda
- Order: Neogastropoda
- Family: Muricidae
- Genus: Favartia
- Species: Favartia cellulosa (Conrad, 1846)
- Common Name: Pitted murex
Geological Range
Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene; Recent.
Paleogeographic Distribution
Southern Florida to South Carolina.
Remarks
For information on the modern distribution of the species, see Malacolog.
Original Description (from Conrad, 1846, p. 25):
"Short-fusiform, with large, prominent revolving lines or costae, the interstices with transverse wrinkled lines, largest on the varices, and giving the shell a cellular aspect; beak much curved; color cinereous; aperture small, obovate, purplish within.
Locality. Tampa Bay. Inhabits oyster beds."
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Stratigraphic Occurrences
- Late Pleistocene
- Fort Thompson Formation (S. FL)
- Middle Pleistocene
- Bermont Formation (S. FL)
- Early Pleistocene
- Caloosahatchee Formation (S. FL)
- Nashua Formation (N. FL)
- Waccamaw Formation (SC, NC)
- Late Pliocene
- Tamiami Formation (Pinecrest Beds) (S. FL)
