Taxon: Dentalium neohexagonum Sharp and Pilsbry
Locality: Pacific Beach, San Diego County, CA
Age: Pliocene
Rock unit: San Diego Formation
Collector: W. Itano
This is a fragment of the shell of a scaphopod (tusk shell). The cross section
is hexagonal. This species is still extant, and its common name is the Six-sided
Tusk Shell.
The length is 1.2 cm.
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