Campanile symbolicum – Large! Living fossil

Species: Campanile symbolicum

Author: Iredale, 1917

Locality: Flinders Bay SW Australia

Size: 163.8mm

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Description

Description

On sand under plate coral, 16m, Seal Island, April 2012. Minor chips on the lip and eroded spire. Some sponge attacks as usual for this size. The only surviving member of the family. Fossils of gigantic nearly meter long ancestors of this interesting species have been found.