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Jerb322@lemmy.world to Cool Rocks@lemmy.todayEnglish · 2 days ago

Snail, wonder how old...?

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Snail, wonder how old...?

Jerb322@lemmy.world to Cool Rocks@lemmy.todayEnglish · 2 days ago
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  • Agent641@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    At least 3

  • Wren@lemmy.todayM
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    Cool rock, no matter how old.

  • jim_v@lemmy.world
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    Between 443.8 and 485.4 million years old. Looks like a gastropod from the ordovician period.

    https://home.wgnhs.wisc.edu/wisconsin-geology/fossils/gastropod-mollusks-snails/

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      Who are you so wise in the ways of science

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        Yeah, that dude rocks.

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    At least 11days. So like somewhere between 12 days and like 500 million years or something like that.

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    3, just count the rings

    • Archer@lemmy.world
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      That only works with tree-snails

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    One of my coworkers would say it could be up to 6000 years old, his date for the beginning of the world.

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    Could be a juvenile nautilus.

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