The Nummulite-Whisperer Snail
It has been long since Strabo mistook these coin-like shells for lentils dropped by rushed workers in the Gizah pyramids of Egypt.
These Nummulite fossils in particular once lived in a shallow sea of northern Iberia during the Ypresian (Eocene), some 50Ma ago. Today, still close to the coast, a snail crawls over them, absorbed in his morning thoughts.
Photo taken close to the Cantabrian locality of San Vicente de la Barquera, northern Spain.
Taken on 17
April
2015
Submitted on 28 February 2017
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Credit: Manuel de Paz Álvarez (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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