Stromboidea
Original description of Macrostrombus bartoni by Petuch & Drolshagen, 2011:
- "Shell large for genus, inflated, broad; spire narrow, elevated, with slightly concave sides, rising to sharply-pointed tip; body whorl sculptured with 12-15 prominent, wide, low spiral cords; shoulder angled, with 10 low, rounded knobs; subsutural area sloping, ornamented with 6 thin spiral cords; spire whorls slightly concave in center, ornamented with 6 very fine spiral cords; suture of spire whorls with 10 rounded knobs per whorl; edge of lip only slightly rounded; stromboid notch slightly developed."
Locus typicus: From the upper beds in Palm Beach Aggregates, Loxahatchee, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
Stratum typicum: Upper beds of the Holey Land Member of the Bermont Formation of southern Florida (early Aftonian Pleistocene)
Holotype: Length 154 mm, width 101 mm
Specimens from private collections
Macrostrombus cf. bartoni Petuch & Drolshagen, 2011; Pliocene/Pleistocene; southern Florida, USA; 135 mm; Coll. Ulrich Wieneke
Macrostrombus cf. bartoni Petuch & Drolshagen, 2011; Pliocene/Pleistocene; southern Florida, USA; 130 mm; Coll. Ulrich Wieneke
References:
- Petuch E.J. & Drolshagen M. (2011) - Compendium of Florida Fossil Shells Vol. 1. (Middle Miocene to Late Pleistocene Marine Gastropods of the Everglades and Adjacent Areas: Families Strombidae, Cypraeidae, Ovulidae, Eocypraeidae, Triviidae, Conidae, and Conilithidae)