mollusk
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The high presence of hearths and mollusk and fish remains in the middens suggests that the area was used for the processing and consumption of marine resources.
From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024
It wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2023
These compacted layers of mollusk fossils always amaze his students, another humble reminder that everything California is standing and building on was underwater in a previous chapter of this planet’s history.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023
The mollusk specialist Alan Solem estimated in 1990 that, of roughly 200 Hawaiian species of one snail family, the Endodontidae, in Honolulu's Bishop Museum, fewer than 40 had been described.
From Salon • May 31, 2023
Home plate was tilted up and stamped on top with a cracked mollusk fossil.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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