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Description: | A large fossil Poleumita discors gastropod (snail). The dark brown specimen has significant amount of pale brown lime mud matrix across its surface and forming a large base. The specimen is fractured, but has clear growth lines. One side of the fossil has been crushed including the mouth of the gastropod. Cemented within the mud matrix are various small shelly fragments. On the side of the matrix is a pale area, possibly tip-ex. AR/CB
A fossil gastropod (snail) identified as Poleumita discors, which is about 425 million years old | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | Sandwell Museums | Subjects: | Geology Palaeontology | Temporal: | Silurian - Wenlock - Homerian | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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