Dentalium Fossil Sea Shell Tooth Tusk Scaphopod Prehistoric Pliocene Terziary Collection (1)

Description

Origin : France

Geological era : Upper Pliocene (Piacenzian)

Age : 3 million of years

Size : mm 32

Fossil Tooth Tusk Seashell mm 32 x 9 gr 2.5 Dentalium sp. Dentaliida Scaphopoda Prehistoric Molluscs Pliocene Cenozoic Tertiary Collecting Paleontology Museum.

Pleasant fossil portion find of Dentaliidae Shell from the upper Pliocene, representative collectible sample of appreciable quality, with evident well-preserved details of the shape of the shell and the superficial longitudinal ribs.
Only a piece, as in photos.

The fossil is supplied naturally, as taken from the field. It can be easily cleaned of sediment that covers it, and if you wish, consolidated with resin paraloid.

Dentalium is a genus of marine Scaphopod Molluscs of the Dentaliidae family. The genus contains 50 described species and approximately 50 extinct species.
Fossils of the Dentalium genus are geographically widespread. This genus is very ancient, dating back to the Silurian period (age range: 422.9 to 0.0 million years ago). It is mainly represented in fossils from the Cretaceous, Eocene and Miocene. The scientific name of this genus derives from the Latin term dentis, which means tooth, based on the tooth or tusk shape of these molluscs. The shells are conical and curved in a planispiral way, and are generally whitish in colour. They are hollow and open at both ends. These molluscs live on the sediments of the seabed, feeding on microscopic organisms, debris and foraminifera.