1.8" Pleistocene Gastropod Mollusk (Polinices) Fossil - Florida

Pleistocene Gastropod Mollusk (Polinices) Fossil - Florida #148567

This is a fossil gastropod mollusk of the species Polinices duplicatus that was collected from the Pleistocene age Okeechobee Formation (informal) near Miami, Florida. It is 1.8" long and approximately 200,000 years old.

Gastropods, or snails, have been around since the Late Cambrian period. The class Gastropoda contains a vast total of named species, second only to the insects in overall number. There are 611 known families of gastropods, of which 202 families are extinct and appear only in the fossil record.