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Snail fossil or modern snail ?


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Hi this is fossil snail?

Location:Near Jasna Cave silt Kraków ,Southern Poland

I found it in the cave. It was full of bones and droppings but rather contemporary.

Shell dug out of silt cave

 

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It is probably from Quaternary sediments, not Jurassic. The cave sediments of the region were accumulated from the Late Pleistocene - onward, and looks like a land snail.

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Doesn't look mineralized, to me. 
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It looks "Alive".

 

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It looks recent due to the color, but I caution everyone to be careful calling items like this as recent based on looks alone. A more detailed location and an in depth literature review might be a better way to know for sure. For example, attached is a picture of a Pleistocene land snail that I found (Triodopsis sp.) that is still extant, but was found within formation. It looks recent, but a literature review on Pleistocene land gastropods from loess deposits across North America shows otherwise, with carbon dating putting the snails as Late Pleistocene, regardless of the level of mineralization.

 

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I study recent and Quaternary malacology and your specimen is recent because of the shine (some specimen form Quaternary deposits keep their colour).

I'am sure it is an Oxychilidae and you can see 2 genus Oxychilus & Aegopinella. To identify it more precisely I need profil picture, size and my bay to compare it with well identify specimen.

Oxychilus species are difficult to identify but species present in Poland are : O.cellairus, O.draparnaudi,  (the two most commons species) but also O.glaber O.translucidus. The apex of Oxychilus is flattened. It would be also an Aegopniella nitidula.

 

TNCollector, great shell !!! :wub: If you (or anybody else) have others shells recent or quaternary in exchange againts invertebrates fossils (from France) it would be great ! 

 

 

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Looks like one of those diminutive modern terrestrial gastropods commonly called glass snails, true glass snails, or even garlic glass-snails.

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