FOSSIL LEFT-HANDED WHELK - 3 million years old - Red Crag. Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
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(Left handed whelk)
(Left handed whelk)
3 million years old
Red Crag. Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The Red Crag Sea had an extraordinarily rich diversity of shellfish, with hundreds of species. The shells are fragile, and look like modern shells, but they are real fossils.
They include Neptunea angulata (formerly Neptunea contraria) - the ‘left-handed whelk’, which spirals in the opposite direction to almost all other gastropods.
This fossil is from an old collection.
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Size: approx. 7.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 centimetres
Weight: 42 grams
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