Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 1777
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 22v
Additional Source Text:
"Some with part of the Shell adhering to it resembling a beautifull open Screw of blackish grey very hard & glazed, found with a variety of other Shells petrified on the Side of the bank of a gully 1/2 mile from the river rappahannock in Virginia 250 miles from its mouth."
Notes:
These fossilized shells were likely from Turritellidae, a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs.
