Ancient snail????

[Tam]

Very interesting

[Benji]

Thank you for your input Louvier...after several Google searches......my find does appear to be a bellerophone

[Louvier]

It is a snail. From the extinct genus Gastropod and the exact specimen is a Bellerophon from the Ordovician period. I have attached a picture of a Bellerophon for ID comarison. If you google bellerophon fossil , you will find more like yours for further ID. Yours is a very fine example. Louvier

[SDhunter]

Cool find

[tomf]

Benji, you are finding all kinds of interesting things.

[Benji]

That's interesting....I've always wanted to find a trilobite....but all that I have seen have been "stretched" out and imprinted in rock......did trilobites fold up like a like a snail would?

[sarahsue]

It appears to be a very water worn(smooth) trilobite fossil.

[Lindenmeier-Man]

Yeah, fossil ...

[redrocks]

I think that's a fossil... Nice find

[Kentucky point]

If it's a snail, it's a lil' on the chubby side...


I'm not sure. I hope some of our fossil experts give an explanation.

[Benji]

Found on river gravel bar in Robertson co tn