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Description: | Specimen of a fossil gastropod (snail), Pleurotomaria sp., collected from unspecified rocks of Quaternary, Pleistocene age from Coral Bay, Cyprus. Collected by David M. Lumsden.
The original low-angled cone-shaped shell of this sea snail has a pattern of vertical ribs and spiral cords (rope-like pattern). The whorls (coils) of the shell increase in size towards the rounded opening in the shell where the snail could withdraw its soft body for protection. There is a groove in the shell known as a 'slit band' that formed a channel to carry water pumped out of the body away from the head region of the snail.
The specimen was found in Cyprus.
It is from the Quaternary period (1.8 - 0 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | David M. Gastropoda Classification: Animalia Invertebrata Lumsden Mollusca | Temporal: | Quaternary period (1.8 - 0 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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