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Help with some micro-gastropods from the Middle Jurassic of the UK

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Hey all!

 

Today I bring you some teeny tiny gastropods!

All Inferior Oolite Group, Cotswolds UK. Every formation. There are a few different species that I have described here:

 

Species A: "helter-skelter". A very very loose spiral, resembling a helter skelter...

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Species B: very neat loose spiraled.

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Species C: very tight spiral, very common

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Species D: fascinatingly bumpy textured spiral. Reminds me of a wallpaper!

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Measurements in cm.

 

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If anyone else comes across the same fossils (hey from the future!), I've been looking for ages for a paper on Oolite fossils.

 

Hopefully now we'll up the visibility of this information?

 

Here's the most related paper that I could find (same age):

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Some-characteristic-gastropods-of-the-Callovian-Oxfordian-succession-A-B-Ataphrus-A_fig29_272764928

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