Inoceramus

Shells of fossil molluscs and brachiopods (such as Inoceramus, and spirifers) found locally, fresh water clams (origin uncertain) and seashells (from both Pacific and Atlantic waters) have been found in Chaco ruins.

Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937

Hemispherical specimens have been found on the inner surface of a shell which has no living representative — viz., the Inoceramus (some of which attained a length of two feet) — and spherical ones of the same prismatical structure occur detached in the chalk.

Tropic Days 2003

These are mainly casts of the giant fucoid alga Halymenites major, and shells of Inoceramus barabini.

Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937

Hemispherical specimens have been found on the inner surface of a shell which has no living representative -- viz., the Inoceramus (some of which attained a length of two feet) -- and spherical ones of the same prismatical structure occur detached in the chalk.

Tropic Days 1887