fossil
gastropod
Gastropoda
The tell
A spiral. Either coiled flat in one plane or wound up into a spire.
A modern snail shell on the beach is not a fossil. A fossil one is stone all the way through and usually filled with rock.
What it gets mistaken for
- cephalopod
- brachiopod
- ammonite
- modern snail shell
The facts
- also calledGastropoda
- age~380 million yrs
- where it turns upHuron & the Straits ยท statewide float
- on the chartfossil · 500 stickers ever
Put it on the shelf
Every stone on this chart is drawn and kiss-cut at three inches. The rarer the stone, the fewer exist: only 500 gastropod will ever be printed, then the run is retired.
10% of every order goes to the Roscommon County Animal Shelter.