fossilized snail shell (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

fossilized snail shell

Caption

A 250-million-year-old fossil of a marine snail shell in pristine condition. The shell was one of the thousands examined in the study. Scale bar = 100 µm

Credit

William Foster et al.

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License

CC BY

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