markhero Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Greetings from Greece! I found this small spiral fossil, I think it is a gastropod. It still has a small piece of matrix attached to it. It was found near a Pliocene field along with fossil ostreas. There are many of them, so I guess it is rather common, but since the matrix is hard this was the only speciment found almost intact. Aproximatelly 1cm long. Could you please help me out with the ID? Thank you very much in advance.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 It seems to be an interior mold of a high-spired gastropod; without the external features, it will be difficult to identify beyond that. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markhero Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 Thank you for the information. I know it looks like an interior mold in the picture but it does not have mold features. It looks like it is actually a shell. I found many of these broken or partials and they look like hollow empty fossil shells. Please find below another piece of a broken fragment of another piece to show you the interior: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I do not see a layer of shell: Perhaps just an adhering layer of the internal nacre? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 as Auspex says, that is a cast of the inside of a gastropod. It would be difficult to ID as such "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markhero Posted November 24, 2014 Author Share Posted November 24, 2014 Thank you very much for the information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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