ID: Crommium Angustatum? from Gaas (Landes)

[giannisergente]

Hello everyone, these three sea snails fossils come from Laas (Landes - France). Could these be Crommium Angustatum? 

 

Thanks:)

 

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Edited May 3, 2021 by giannisergente

[Zenmaster6]

Sorry cannot help with id but is that a predation hole from another mollusk or man made to fit string inside?

[giannisergente]

I really don't know.. I hope the second one sincerily... even if  it's note probably the most romantic and naturalistic destiny for a 30-millions year-old snail ahah  

[fifbrindacier]

On 7/5/2016 at 12:47 PM, fifbrindacier said:

Hi everybody,

last week i hunted in the rupelian shellsands of Gaas in the department of Landes in the country of Chalosse with some fellows fossil hunters.

I collected some great shells :

Crommium (or Amaurellina) angustatum :

1)

2)

A turbo (Heteroninella parkinsoni) and its capping (or coverplate ?)

3)

4)

That's very probably crommiums angustatum, here is one among those i collected in Gaas. You can also have a look at this site : http://www.fossilshells.nl/Fran/frol01.html

[giannisergente]

thank you for your reply:) I had already saw your post (and the website too), impressive... mine ones look quite smaller (even compare to the ones on fossilshells.nl), that's why I was wondering if they could belong to this specie. Is that small size plausible for you? 

[fifbrindacier]

Yes, it is plausible, i have some that are the size of yours, they might be juvenile ones.

[caterpillar]

I agree for Crommium angustatum.

At Gaas outcrop you can find Crommium from 10 to 150mm