Gomphoceras marcyae, Nautiloid
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Description:
A specimen of Gomphoceras, a shelled cephalopod.
- Site: IL; Lawrence Co.; Bridgeport
- Site Number: NH90Fa
- Era: Paleozoic
- Period: Silurian
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Cephalopoda
- Order: Nautilida
- Family: Phragmoceratidae
- Genus: Gomphoceras
- Species: Gomphoceras marcyae
- Formation: Niagara group
- Collection: Invertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Cephalopods
- Object Id: PI2841
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