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English: Example of left- and right coiling in gastropods: figure at left side: Neptunea angulata (=contraria auct.) as left coiled; figure at right side: Neptunea despecta as right coiled species. Both are fossil from Pliocene deposits near Antwerp (Belgium), North Sea Basin.
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Source Nyst, P.H., 1878-1881. Conchyliologie des terrains tertiaires de la Belgique. -- Ann. Mus. r. Hist. nat. Belg., 3: 1-262 (1878), 28 pls. (1881).
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