Died January 5, 1904, German naturalist Karl Alfred von Zittel.
A pioneer of paleontological & stratigraphic research in Germany.
In 1884 he introduced "Ammonoidea" to specifically refer to the fossils of Mesozoic cephalopods 🦑, previously a name given to various curled shells 🐚
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A freshwater snail with eggs on its shell. It may be E. pybasii aka the Spring Elimia, which are endemic to the southeast US in the Tennessee River drainage.
The ammonites' graveyard: https://shutterbugofstone.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ammonites-graveyard.html
Found an amber snail estivating at the farmers market. It would probably have ended up crushed where it was, so I gently detached it and chucked it into thick brush by the river.
Amber snails are fairly common land snails but this is the first living one I've ever seen.
Today I made my 2,000th observation on iNaturalist. While working at the allotment garden, this black-velvet leatherleaf slug popped out of a clump of weeds. They are invasive in Alabama and are slowly working their way north.
It was the first one I've seen in person, and I was bith excited and a bit dissapointed that they're in my area now. #Gardening #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday #Nature
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