Hi all,
my grandpa recently gave me this snail shell he brought from a Florida holiday some decades ago (he said he "pulled it out of the ocean"; but that's all details I have on the finding situation).
I saw this post by Herb with Florida shells, one of which looks quite similar:
For the one in my images I'm wondering whether it is a recent exemplar or a fossil one. In a German fossils forum where I showed the images someone tended to recent because of the slight color remnants.
On the other hand, it looks really similar to the fossil busycon contrarium I saw here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busycon_contrarium
Any hints regarding recent vs. fossil and more specific ID are highly welcome!
The Euro coin for scale is about 0.9 inch in diameter.
Many thanks in advance
Jan
P.S.: Very nice forum you have here!