Name/Title
Fossil Gastropod ("Bellerophon" ?)Entry/Object ID
96.01.048Description
One fossil gastropod specimen identified in the original physical catalog as Bellerophon. Bellerophon was a genus of snails renowned for the immense size of several species.
However, the locality for this specimen is Topanga Canyon, where the oldest rocks are of late Cretaceous age. Bellerophon, and its entire family and order, went extinct in the Triassic.
Thus, either the ID or the locality must be incorrect, except on the improbable chance that this specimen is a Triassic or Paleozoic xenolith redeposited in a Cretaceous unit.
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: †Bellerophontida
Family: †Bellerophontidae
Genus: †BellerophonCollection
Fossil CollectionAcquisition
Accession
96.01Source or Donor
Crater Rock MuseumAcquisition Method
GiftNotes
"O Land" is written after the accession number.