cypraeid snail
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
(Scale bar is 1 cm)
Another group of
primarily tropical snails
with common fossil
representatives in the Ocala Limestone of
Georgia are the cypraeids (cowries).
Because they originally had shells of
aragonite, they are typically preserved as
molds. Consequently, identification to
species is essentially impossible, and little
about the age of the rock can be determined
from the snails. However, their presence is
one of many lines of evidence for a tropical climate in southwest Georgia in the
late Eocene.
AGE: LATE EOCENE
FORMATION: OCALA LIMESTONE
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