Bellerophon crassus

7,00 â‚¬

System: Carboniferous.

Subsystem: Pennsylvania.

Origin: Stanley, Johnson County, Kansas, USA.

Measurements: 3 cm x 3 cm

 

SKU: GA206 Categories: , ,

Bellerophon It's a genre of extinct marine mollusks, which lived from the Ordovician to the Lower Triassic, of uncertain position (Gastropoda or Monoplacophora). 

This genus is characterized by a shell:

  • globose.
  • convolute (each turn partially embraces the previous one).
  • planispiral (symmetrically coiled). 
  • 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