mollusc doesn’t look fossil but looks like some of my shells which are 40mya so I class them as fossils🤔

was it found inland?

@leonardo-miranda yes, never found it on surface

probably fossil then

since it isn’t near a water source

that snail is evidently aquatic, so if it’s found inland then it must be ancient

@leonardo-miranda closest river is about 7 km. But there is salt water lake 200m from my house

@leonardo-miranda in that lake there is no living creatures

interesting

if not fossil, the shell should have at least some centuries/millennia of age, from a time when that river was flowing through that area

@leonardo-miranda the more deep I dig the more stuff I find

Okay so a couple things. The first one is a snail can live on land. Gastropoda are the only mollusk to develop lungs which are snails who some evolved to loose their shell giving us slugs. We have a very similar modern day snail that lives in our mountains here in Logan. It’s pretty funny because it bleaches when they die so people bring them i…[Read more]

@neven-popov-2 Hi there! You can go ahead and fill in the taxonomic information as Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca and Class: Gastropoda!

gastropod

@chloe-geddes l was thinking that gastropod was an aquatic species because that shell shape seems to be more common in aquatic snails than in land snails. for example, the freshwater rams-horn snail. but l guess there are a few landliving species that have the same flat spiral shape too.

@leonardo-miranda, you’re a very smart kid and I’m always very impressed with your comments ☺️Shell morphology is super complex, it can evolve the same style of shell at different times and this happens much more frequently than you’d think so while rams horn snails have similar shells so do some land living snails. Now this could be a fossi…[Read more]

Nice how old and what period is it from?

gastropod shell not sure on species

Hi @neven-popov-2 I am going to try and narrow down the lithostrat and geochron of these gastropods for you! Do you have the English term for the location of where these are being found?

@mackenzie-ross-2 I did it, I found them while digging. IN LAND

cool! looks like viviparus gastropods shell. Nice find!

viviparus gastropod

galba truncatula?

planorbis and viviparus shells I think. Nice collection there. I would love to have some of them… there not all encased in rock like mine

very nice

it looks modern to me. not sure

oyster shell. they tend to grow with an abnormal calcium abnormality in their shells

making them all lumpy on the outer surface