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From the album: The Mollusca of the Banjaard
A damaged specimen, quite worn too. Admittedly, it is much less beautiful than the modern version of this shell, which is commonly found here, but it's still nice to find a fossil example! It is a bit too worn to make a confident ID to species on this specimen, but seeing that most shells are from the Eemian, chances are good that this is the Eemian (and modern) species E. clathrus. But it still isn't completely sure, which is why I put it as cf. just to be safe. Status: still locally alive (modern specimens are much more common than fossil ones) Fossil occurence: rare© 2019 Max DEREME
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This forum seemed like the perfect venue for sharing some microfossils from my collection. I'll start with this one: ; some small specimens of Epitonium sayana from the Upper Miocene St.Mary's Formation, found at Windmill Point in St.Mary's County,Maryland. Scale is in mm. These appear very polished & translucent, with delicate varices encirling the spire. Amazing what you can find in a couple of scoops of beach litter when all the big stuff has been picked over....