Ludwigia Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 My wife ordered a 2 x 1 x 1 Meter raised bed for herbs last week and it was just delivered today. The first thing I did before I start putting the thing together was to dig up a plot of that size at the edge of the garden where I'll be placing it for her. It's interesting what you can come up with when you're turning over a new area in an old garden. When we first moved in and I started rearranging things out there I dug up a nice rock crystal block as well as things like marbles, plastic toys and other household paraphernalia. This time along with a couple of marbles I dug up a nicely preserved gastropod. I think that it's recent, but who knows? Maybe it's from the Holocene? Now I'd like to ask if anyone could help me out with the id on this little snail. It's 5cm. long. I've checked out @MikeR 's Tamiami Album and the closest I could come up with was Stramonita, but it doesn't quite fit. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 It looks quite similar to a couple I have from the Cretaceous of Wyoming. Pyrgulifera humerosa A bit smaller at only 2cm and much older sediments, but perhaps a distant relative in the family. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted March 21, 2020 Author Share Posted March 21, 2020 3 minutes ago, caldigger said: It looks quite similar to a couple I have from the Cretaceous of Wyoming. Pyrgulifera humerosa A bit smaller at only 2cm and much older sediments, but perhaps a distant relative of yours. Thanks for your thoughts. It's also similar in its ornamentation to the Jurassic Pleurotomaria, but that's a slit snail, which doesn't fit. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 I'm happy to see you active here in these hard times we have in our days according to the Covid-19. I wish you the best from my hearth. Sorry for rhe off-topic. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted March 21, 2020 Author Share Posted March 21, 2020 9 hours ago, abyssunder said: I'm happy to see you active here in these hard times we have in our days according to the Covid-19. I wish you the best from my hearth. Sorry for rhe off-topic. No need to apologize. Quite to the contrary. Thanks for the good wishes. Chin up! Time seems to be moving slowly right now, but this will blow over eventually like everything else does. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlesteve Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 I am not finding an exact match but looks like something in Nassariidae if that helps narrow it down... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlesteve Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 The other option that looks promising is Buccinum sp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlesteve Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Well, I was wrong twice. It is Struthiolaria papulosa. Shells are hard sometimes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnbuckeye Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 1 hour ago, turtlesteve said: Struthiolaria papulosa @turtlesteve Excellent call!!! So how does a marine New Zealand shell end up in SE Germany?? From http://juliansrockandiceblog.blogspot.com/ "the "ostrich foot shells", family Struthiolariidae, which are almost entirely limited to New Zealand, and are one of the really characteristic elements of our fauna. They display a long, complicated history of evolution and extinction, with more than 35 species occurring as fossils over more than 40 million years, and yet only two species still live here now - Struthiolaria papulosa (top of p. 123) and Pelicaria vermis" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted March 21, 2020 Author Share Posted March 21, 2020 8 hours ago, turtlesteve said: Well, I was wrong twice. It is Struthiolaria papulosa. Shells are hard sometimes. Spot on! Thank you VERY much! I guess one of my predecessors in this apartment must have either bought it at a gift shop, known someone from the south Pacific or they were there themselves. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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