Fossil Detail

C lass：Gastropoda 腹足綱
Order：Neogastropoda 新腹足目
Family：Volutidae 渦螺科
Genus：Melo 
Scientific Name ：Melo melo  (Lightfoot, 1786)
Chinese Name：椰子渦螺
Fossil Location：恆春半島恆春西台地四溝層（Szekou Formation of the western Hengchun tableland, Hengchun Peninsula）
Fosill Ages：更新世, Pleistocene
Reservation Location： 國立台中自然科學博物館
Inventory No.：NMNS000600,000600a,b
Size：SL14.5cm,Dia8.5cm;SL3.3,Dia2.0
Reference：台灣貝類化石誌1-4:350-351, 1991
Plate：圖版六十二，圖 17,18,26,27

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