Hello Folks,

Many years ago I received a specimen identified as a Pleurotomaria from
Jurassic deposits in England.  I just retrieved it out of the archives
(otherwise known as the pile of boxes in my basement).  It has a shoulder
band that might represent a filled-in slit, but no evidence of an open slit.
Does anyone have an opinion as to whether this is truly a Pleurotomaria?  It
is an old fossil (fully petrified).  You can see it via the link below
(hopefully - last time, folks had trouble with this).  If anyone cannot open
the link, I'll be glad to send you the picture directly.

Paul M.

http://members.home.net/paulcyp/SLITFOSSIL.JPG