Gastropods

Information

Gastropods have adapted to live as marine, non marine and land-dwelling animals, living benthically, vagrantly or epifaunally as carnivores, scavengers, deposit feeders and more. Their conservative shell shape makes them difficult to use as environmental or stratigraphic indicators... Read more

Taxonomy

• Phylum: Mollusca
• Class: Gastropods

Diagnostic features

These are the features that will help you to identify fossils as gastropods.

• Coiled shell - helical or planispiral
• Mostly aragonitic shell
• Shell consists of one large chamber (no septa)

Stratigraphic range

Cambrian to present