PALEONTOLOGY

LABORATORY
GASTROPODS
Tim Penyusun :
1. Achmad Faridz 5. Heru Maulana
2. Alfit Taufiqoh 6. Jessica Ivana P.
3. Desy Rinikasari 7. Meidyana Aulisti
4. Ervina Yustika N. 8. Milasari Nurfitria
 1. Introduction
2. General characteristic
3. Specific Characteristic
4. Classification
5. Body part
6. Thin section
OUTLINE
7. Application
8. reference
INTRODUCTION

Source : google images

 o Creep along “flattened foot”

o Marine, freshwater, and land

o Internal organs are twisted 1800

GENERAL o Univalved shell is coiled helically and some are planispirally

CHARACTERI
STICS
 o Lower Cambrian - recent

o Has a true head: tentacles, eyes, & other sense organs

o Has retractor muscle to retract the soft body part, closed by an

operculum
SPECIFIC
o Mouth: contains rasping jaw (radula)
CHARACTERI
STIC o Hermaphrodite

o Full retraction within the shell

o Anterior-faced aperture
BODY PART

Source: Clarkson, E.N.K., 1992, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, Fourth Edition, UK: Blackwell Science
 Coiling in
Gastropods

(Jain, 2017)
 Shell Form

(Jain, 2017)
Shell variations

(J Fryda, 2013)
 General
Characteristics

Source: Doyle, P., 1996, Understanding

Fossils: An Introduction to Invertebrate
Palaeontology, England: John Wiley & Sons
Ltd.
 o Some have septa
o No siphuncle

Sept Siphuncl
a e

Source: Clarkson, E.N.K., 1992, Invertebrate

Palaeontology and Evolution, Fourth Edition,
UK: Blackwell Science
http://ammonites.manzanitalab.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/04/09055.png
 • Mostly dextral but maybe sinistral
• Might be ornamented with ribs, spires, or
vertical bars

SHELL
CHARACTERISTICS

Source: Clarkson, E.N.K., 1992, Invertebrate Palaeontology and

Evolution, Fourth Edition, UK: Blackwell Science
https://inverts.wallawalla.edu/Glossary/GastropodShellPartsDLC.gif
 Protoconch vs
Operculum

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilicus_(moll
usc)#/media/File:Helicella_obvia1.jpg
 Classification is based on: soft parts (gill & osphradium)

Subclass 1: PROSOBRANCHIATA (L. Cam – Rec)

Order 1: Archaegastropoda (L. Cam – Rec)

CLASSIFICATI Order 2: Mesogastropoda (Ord – Rec)

ON Order 3: Neogastropoda (Cret – Rec)

Subclass 2: OPHISTOBRANCHIATA (Carb – Rec)

Subclass 3: PULMONATA (Mes – Rec)

Source: Clarkson, E.N.K., 1992, Invertebrate

Palaeontology and Evolution, Fourth Edition,
UK: Blackwell Science
 Prosobranchia are fully torted with one or two gills, an anterior
mantle cavity and cap-shaped or conispiral shells

Order: Order:
Archaegastropoda Neogastropoda

Prosobranchiat
a

Source:
www.fossilera.com
http://southernarrow.com/
http://www.gastropods.com
 Opisthobranchia are untorted (having gone through torsion followed
by detorsion) with the shell reduced or absent, and the mantle cavity
posterior or absent

Ophistobranchiata

Pteropods Berghia coerulescens

Source:
https://upload.wikimedia.org
latimes.com
 Pulmonata are untorted with the mantle cavity modified as a lung,
and the shells are usually conispiral.

PULMONATA

Source: Slide Perkuliahan Paleontologi ITB Helix pomatia

 SHELL
COMPOSITION

o Mostly aragonite
o Calcite for the intertidal species
o Fossil: mostly calcite
o Coating: periostracum
Source: http://www.seafriends.org.nz/enviro/habitat/eco03.gif
 SHELL SIZE

Shell size: mm to m

Source: cluttermuseum.com
http://hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca/gastropoda/ventricu.gif
THIN
SECTION
 1. gastropods as stratigraphical indicators
2. Palaeoenvironmental Analysis

APPLICATION

Source: Clarkson, E.N.K., 1992, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, Fourth Edition, UK: Blackwell Science
 1. Clarkson, E.N.K., 1992, Invertebrate
Palaeontology and Evolution, Fourth Edition, UK:
Blackwell Science
2. Slide Perkuliahan Paleontologi ITB
3. Google images

REFERENCE