Gastropods

Gastropod fossil shells details the varying nature, size, shape, design and patterns which gastrpods (which includes species such as snails) lived in or with through out their life span. Gastrpods are among few known family of animals which have an extremely diverse range of habitats, from land, sea, trees, even the deep sea living on and around hydro thermal vents. Because the majority of their body is soft, it is very rarely fossilised, however, their hard shells made from calcium almost always are. Just like modern day shells, these fossils detail the varying nature of pre historic gastrpods from various geological periods.