Freshwater Snail Fossils from Myanmar (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Freshwater Snail Fossils from Myanmar

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These 35-million-year-old snail fossils in Myanmar contain the record of the past climate in their shells. Analyses by University of Arizona geoscientist Alexis Licht and his colleagues show these snails lived in a monsoon climate that had dry winters and very rainy summers. These freshwater gastropods from the Yaw formation (37-34 million years ago) were sampled near the town of Kalewa in central Myanmar.

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Alexis Licht 2012

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