The Museum's collection of fossil molluscs is among the world’s most systematically ... molluscan classes from across their entire geological range. Specimen of the large marine gastropod Voluta ...

Gastropods, snail-like and slug-like invertebrates, are among the most common fossil types, with over 15,000 prehistoric species identified. According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (IITF) Sumit ...

meaning the fossil was more than 11,700 years old, and could have been living during the last planetary ice age. The animal that called the shell home, a gastropod, was long dead, but the shell ...