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Description: | Fossil gastropod identified as Straparollus pentangulatus. This specimen is well preserved and pale in colour. It is on a grey/brown fine grained mud matrix with crystalline fossils and a flat base. Secondary fossils in the matrix include crinoid and shelly fragments. On the specimen three whorls (coils) are visible and widen outwards. The outer whorls has a small fracture and damage to the edge. AR/CB 17/05/2010
Original label on stamp paper; Euomphalus pentangular, tus C. Limes, Chatburn, 1892
Fossil gastropod (snail) known as Straparollus pentangulatus which is approximately 350 million years old | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fossils Geology Palaeontology Dr Fraser Collection | Temporal: | Lower Carboniferous - Mississippian | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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