I don’t know about you 🤔 but personally, I prefer a gastro pub 🍛🍻 to a gastropod 🐚 …. Anyway, here’s one I found on the Jurassic Coast of Dorset UK 🇬🇧 … Any idea anybody as to species❓
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Amazing Agatized Gastropod Shell
From Western Sahara, Morocco.
$20 plus shipping!
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Carrier Snail
These sea-snails really like to decorate. As they grow, they grab things from their surroundings, living or dead, and hold them in place while their shell grows around them, and cements them into place.
These remarkable gastropods are in the genus Xenophora (xeno = ‘foreign’, phora = 'carrier’), and are found in deep tropical waters throughout the Indo-Pacific, from East Africa, all the way to New Zealand and Japan. The specimen in this photo is Xenophora pallidula, or 'pale carrier snail’.
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Here are some stunning chalcedony replaced gastropod fossils from Betul, India. They’ve been polished to reveal the once hollow cavity of the shell that has been filled with a pocket of beautiful druzy quartz crystals. They are also cut on one side so that they display nicely on a flat surface. These gastropod fossils are Cretaceous in age.
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Here’s a more detailed look at some of the crystallized gastropod fossils 🙂
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Гастропода (а по-простому: улитОз 🤣)
Возраст: Верхний Мел, Сеноманский ярус ~93-100 млн лет
Местонахождение: хр. Западный Каратау, Мангыстау, Казахстан
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Available: fossil snails in matrix. Commonly known as “turritella agate”, although these snails were freshwater. Location from: Wyoming. Age: Eocene. Approx. size 50mm. Only $8!
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Spiniplatyceras arkonensis , Gastropod Fossil.
Small animals , large defenses.
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