Bellerophon crassus
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System: Carboniferous.
Subsystem: Pennsylvania.
Origin: Topeka, state of Kansas, USA.
Measurements: 1.5cm x 1.5cm
Bellerophon It's a genre of extinct marine mollusks, which lived from the Ordovician to the Lower Triassic, of uncertain position (Gastropoda or Monoplacophora).Â
This genus is characterized by a shell:
- globose.
- convolute (each turn partially embraces the previous one).
- planispiral (symmetrically coiled).Â
- It usually measures a couple of centimeters at most.
- its external surface is smooth, ornamented only by growth lines. It has a small ridge or ridge that runs along the midline of the shell.
- It superficially resembles that of a cephalopod but lacks septa.Â






