Favartia shilohensis
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Gastropoda
- Order: Neogastropoda
- Family: Muricidae
- Genus: Favartia
- Species: Favartia shilohensis (Heilprin, 1888)
Geological Range
Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene; Extinct.
Paleogeographic Distribution
Southern Florida to North Carolina.
Remarks
Original Description (from Heilprin, 1888, p. 404):
"Whorls about seven, angular, flattened on the shoulder, which is crossed diagonally by the variceal ridges; varices about eight on the body-whorl, sub-equal, spinosely elevated on the shoulder angulation, and crossed by four sub-equal revolving ridges, which appear double on the crests of the varices; only two such ridges on the whorls above the body-whorl.
Aperture somewhat more than half the length of shell, key-hole shaped, with the canal broadly deflected. Length nearly .75 inch.
A single specimen from Ayres' pits, near Shiloh, in the possession of Miss Emma Walter, of Philadelphia"
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Synonymous with Murexiella shilohensis.
Stratigraphic Occurrences
- Early Pleistocene
- Caloosahatchee Formation (S. FL)
- Waccamaw Formation (SC)
- Late Pliocene
- Duplin Formation (NC)
- Jackson Bluff Formation (N. FL)
- Tamiami Formation (Pinecrest Beds) (S. FL)
