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Fifteen Million Year Old Freshwater Shellfish - Wat Pho Klang
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Ancient Shell Tomb It is a layer of freshwater snails that look
like pagoda snails (Gastropods) that are embedded in the hard
shale that accumulated about 13-15 million years ago. They look
like snails or sharp-bottomed snails in the family Viviparidae,
genus Bellemya sp. . The dead piled up and compacted into a
layer of rock.
The formation of freshwater shellfish layers
like this is assumed to have occurred in the past. Was this area
once a large swamp? Freshwater lakes came first. Then there may
be a change in the earth's crust. The water source suddenly
dried up. Until causing the snails that live there to die. The
piles piled up and were covered with sediment again until after
tens of millions of years passed, it formed. Merging into the
same rock layer freshwater clam layers like this are also found
in many other places, such as the pond behind the university
Phetchabun Rajabhat and in Huai Sakae Subdistrict Mueang
Phetchabun District, Khok Prong Subdistrict, Wichian Buri
District
How to get there: It is displayed at Ban Na Temple
and Pho Klang Temple, Nang Giu Subdistrict, Mueang Phetchabun
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