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Hello everyone!

my daughter asked me if something we saw in the akumal coast is a fossil or else. Of course we did not remove, we just took a video underwater, of which this screenshot is taken from

thank you!

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Hi,

 

Nice chiton !

 

Coco

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OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici

Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici
Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici
Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici
Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici
Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici
Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici

Un Greg...

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34 minutes ago, jpc said:

(though not a snail)

 

Hmmm...the Germans call them Schnecke, but I just checked out the classification and see they have their very own class.

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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They are polyplacophora, with always 8 plates.

 

Coco

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OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici

Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici
Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici
Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici
Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici
Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici
Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici

Un Greg...

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A very nice photo of a specimen of an extremely interesting group of molluscs. :)

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2 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

 

Hmmm...the Germans call them Schnecke, but I just checked out the classification and see they have their very own class.

I though schnecken were little sweet buns.  
 

critter def chiton

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'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'

George Santayana

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4 hours ago, hemipristis said:

I though schnecken were little sweet buns.

Sure, but its yet another class, of course ;):

For example:

Nußschnecken (google image results)

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Franz Bernhard

 

 

 

 

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