Gastropod in limestone (between Olive's Bower & Bunker Hill, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA)

            Gastropod in limestone in the Mississippian of Kentucky, USA.

The coiled object at center is a gastropod in a limestone wall in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, the longest known cave on Earth.  The cave system has 426 mapped miles, as of March 2024.  Three limestone formations are present in Mammoth Cave (from top to bottom): Girkin Limestone (Upper Mississippian), Ste. Genevieve Limestone (Middle Mississippian), and St. Louis Limestone (Middle Mississippian).

Gastropods are a group of molluscs that occupy marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments.  Most have a coiled, calcareous, external shell (the snails).  Some lack a shell completely, or have reduced internal shells (the slugs & sea slugs & pteropods).  Most members of the Gastropoda are marine.  Most marine snails are herbivores (algae grazers) or predators/carnivores.

Locality: between the Mushroom Vats and Bunker Hill, Aubudon Avenue, Mammoth Cave, western Kentucky, USA
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Taken on: March 12, 2024

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Sets appears in: • Geology, History, Archaeology, Biology of Mammoth Cave National Park (Kentucky, USA) • Kentucky Rocks, Minerals, Fossils more » • Mississippian Rocks, Minerals, Fossils • Gastropod Fossils « less

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