Data: Hi I have recently found several snail shells while fossil hunting in North Carolina and I am having great difficulty figuring out what in fact they are could you please help?
the size of the shells vary from 3 inches to 6 inches in circumference

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• It’s an Echphora species. http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/brochures/fossils/gif/pl22_3.jpg has a picture of a specimen. It may be hard to identify since Ed Petuch’s Echphora book is hard to come by. ...
  Bill F. | www.jaxshells.org

• Ecphora species, possibly E. quadricostata (Say), Muricidae from the late Miocene. ... Andrew G
  

• http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/fs/fs6.html