{"title":"Fossils explained 81","authors":"Stephen K. Donovan","doi":"10.1111/gto.12369","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>\n <b>Dead shells are common allochthonous clasts on British beaches. How much information of relevance to palaeontology can be gleaned from such bioclasts? One exceptional shell, a common <i>Buccinum</i>, is described, which preserves an array of borings and other ichnological evidence. It provides confirmation that we need to look harder at fossil gastropods, too.</b>\n </p>","PeriodicalId":100581,"journal":{"name":"Geology Today","volume":"37 5","pages":"194-197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/gto.12369","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Geology Today","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gto.12369","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dead shells are common allochthonous clasts on British beaches. How much information of relevance to palaeontology can be gleaned from such bioclasts? One exceptional shell, a common Buccinum, is described, which preserves an array of borings and other ichnological evidence. It provides confirmation that we need to look harder at fossil gastropods, too.