Shell found in Middle East Desert

[ultmt45slay]

Hey guys, This is an awesome shell I found while I was on a camel in the desert, it was sticking out of the sand and so I had to pick it up and look at it, Ive had it for bout 17 or 18 years now, and it still looks like it did the day I found it, Enjoy the Pics.





I was debating weather or not to put it in my tank, please let me know If you Think I should!

 

[cudamaster13]

Hey guys, This is an awesome shell I found while I was on a camel in the desert, it was sticking out of the sand and so I had to pick it up and look at it, Ive had it for bout 17 or 18 years now, and it still looks like it did the day I found it, Enjoy the Pics.

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nice fossil do u have any more from the desert

 

[ultmt45slay]

nice fossil do u have any more from the desert

I have a couple that aren't fossils but they did come from the coast when I was there I picked em up, ill look around to see if I have any (not sure where they are)

 

[Chicklette]

Wow, that is pretty cool. I want one. Im not sure if you should put it in the tank though.

 

[Matt724]

don't put it in the tank, save it or donate it to a museum. that's really cool

 

[ultmt45slay]

Wow, thanks for all the comments, I will see if i can donate it to a museum, maybe not... MUHAHAHAHA lol I will take over the world with this one and only shell.

 

[Diogenes]

very cool. It's a fossil from when that part of the world was under the ocean. I wouldn't put it in my tank. The tank water/fish could possibly destroy or corrode it.

 

[Allan01230]

Yes keep it out of the tank. Take it to a museum and see how old the thing is and even what it is.

 

[Oddball]

Nice gastropod. It looks like an internal mold and all of the actual shell nacre has eroded away. If it's from Iraq, the specimen's age would be between the Middle-Eocene (50 million years) to the Oligocene (40 million years). Most Mollusca from that area have never been studied and properly ID'd.

 

[TheFishJunky]

Nice gastropod. It looks like an internal mold and all of the actual shell nacre has eroded away. If it's from Iraq, the specimen's age would be between the Middle-Eocene (50 million years) to the Oligocene (40 million years). Most Mollusca from that area have never been studied and properly ID'd.

man you are just full of info.How the heck do you know that man? Always surprise me."Oddball knowledge"