Stromboidea

• Aporrhaidae
  • Drepanocheilus
    • Drepanocheilus transversus (Gabb, 1869)

Original Description of Anchura transversa by Gabb, 1869:

• "Shell small, fusiform, spire elevated; whorls rounded, their number unknown, suture deep. Surface of upper whorls, and upper part of body whorl, strongly cancellated by longitudinal and transverse ribs; body whorl strongly carinated near the lip, the carina running out, and forming a sort of midrib or keel to the lip. Lip long, transverse, curved upwards, the upper margin regularly concave, tip acute, lower margin broken; canal long straight."

Measurements: Length unknown; about .7 inch; width of body whorl, .2 inch; including length of lip, .5 inch.

Locus typicus: Martinez, Contra Costa County, California, USA

Stratum typicum: Maastrichtian, Cretaceous

Anchura transversa Gabb, 1869, pl. 27, fig. 45

Reference:

• W. M. Gabb (1869)