Napoleon North Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Looks recent, does not look fossilized. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 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. " 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...
Fossildude19 Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Doesn't look mineralized, to me. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 It looks "Alive". "Without fossils, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the earth" - Georges Cuvier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNCollector Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bathollovian Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 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 !!! If you (or anybody else) have others shells recent or quaternary in exchange againts invertebrates fossils (from France) it would be great ! Regards, Bathollovian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgilian Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Looks like one of those diminutive modern terrestrial gastropods commonly called glass snails, true glass snails, or even garlic glass-snails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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