Shell of an extinct gastropod (Bellerophon costatus) that lived during the Carboniferous Period. Illustration from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition.


Shell of an extinct gastropod (Bellerophon costatus) that lived during the Carboniferous Period. Illustration from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition.


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