Fossil Snail Clusters showcase Elrathia is most commonly found

Elrathia is most commonly found in Utah’s Wheeler Shale formation

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Coelacanth ("The Living Fossil")

but that doesn’t make its methods any less brutal

Fossil Snail Clusters showcase Elrathia is most commonly foundFossils are often the remains of a solitary creature, but sometimes they are dramatic scenes of our entire ecosystem, preserved forever. These mass mortality fossils form when a group of animals is wiped out in a cataclysm, an image of their sudden extinction but also a preservation of how they lived. These specimens are fossil snail clusters, preserving the remains of an Elimia tenera colony, dated to 48 million years ago. Found in the Green River