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Volute shellWatercolour 389 by Thomas Watling, entitled Gung a rong, from the Watling Collection
Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck, fossil oystersAbout 190 million years old, found in the Lias clays and limestones of the Jurassic period. Commonly called Devils Toenails
Charonia rubicunda, red australwelk and a voluteWatercolour 388 by Thomas Watling, entitled Gna-gorong and Gung a rung, from the Watling Collection
Strombus tricornis, lightfootShell specimen with Martin Listers engraving from his Historiae Sive Synopsis Methodicae Conchyliorum, 1685-1692, plate 873
Collection of molluscsPlate 16 from The History of Rutherglen and East-Kilbride by David Ure ( 1793)
Dipsas spPlate 10, a holotype from Arhtur MacGregors Hans Sloane, 1994. Shell specimens showing Sir Hans Sloanes catalogue numbers
Semicassis labiata labiata, agate cassid
Tonna cerevisina, tun shellWatercolour 386 by Thomas Watling, entitled Ka lee, from the Watling Collection
Squid specimenSpecimen jar containing squid, held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London
Coronula diarndernaPlate 10, watercolour by Anna Atkins from her 256 original drawings for Lamarcks Genera of shells, 1822-24
British Nudibranch Molluscs, Plate aAHistory of British Mollusca, Forbes and Hanley, Vol I 1853. Illustration of Triopa claviger, Egirus punctilucens, Tritonia hombergi, Doto coronata, Scyllaea pelagica
Spomdylus imperialis, imperial thorny oyster
Hildoceras bifrons, snakestone ammoniteA snakestone ammonite (Hildoceras bifrons) from the Jurassic Lias rocks of Yorkshire, U.K
Schroederoceras bandonis, cephalopodAn extinct, marine fossil invertebrate with a coiled shell from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta
Pronorites cyclolobus, ammonoidAn extinct, marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta
Manticoceras acutum, ammonoidAn extinct, marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta
Phragmoceras sp. nautiloidAn extinct marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta
Sepia craveri, fossil cuttlefishAn extinct marine fossil invertebrate, a relative to todays cuttlefish from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta
Actinoceras oreleriseptum, nautiloidAn extinct, long-shelled or orthoconic marine fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta
Haliotis fulgens, green abaloneA pair of green abalone shells (Haliotis fulgens). This bivalve can been found upto 10m offshore in California
Fasciolaria tulipa, true tulipA pair of true tulips (Fasciolaria tulipa). The true tulip is a carnivorous gastropod that is closely related to the horse conch
Conus textile, textile coneDetail of tent pattern of textile cone shell. Photographed by Harry Taylor
A fossil Kosmoceras, ammoniteKosmoceras, a genus of ammonite which lived during the Jurassic period
Barrandeoceras spA fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London
Architeutis dux, giant squidThis 8.62-metre giant squid (Architeutis dux), called Archie, was caught off the coast of the Falkland Islands in March 2004
Goniatites sp. goniatiteAn extinct, marine fossil goniatite from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs), sub-class Ammonoidea. Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta
Human (Homo sapiens) Femur and PatellaThe ball joint from the top end of a human femur and a patella (knee cap) which once belonged to a victim of the Mount Vesuvius eruption of AD 79 which buried the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii
Scaphites nodosus, ammoniteThis Cretaceous ammonite originates from The Badlands, South Dakota, U.S.A. This specimen retains much of its original shell giving it a beautiful pearly lustre
Gustavus Brander (1720-1787)Trustee of the British Museum and Director of the Bank of England. Here depicted holding the type specimen of Strombus amplus
Chlorostilbon elegans, Goulds Emerald
Voluta aulica specimen. Catalogue reference w.3.t3.f4
William Buckland (1784-1856)Print annotated in pencil Dr Buckland Dean of Westminster. Buckland was an English geologist and palaeontologist, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur
Nautilus sp. nautilus shellA carved nautilus shell, c. 1600 from the Sir Hans Sloane collection
Octopus spPlate 126 from the Loten Collection, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, 1754-57
Lower Chalk
Belemnitella mucronata, belemnite71-65 million year old squid-like belemnite specimen from the Late Cretaceous, Mstricht, Holland
Strombus pugilis, West Indian fighting conchPlate 854 by Martin Lister from his Historia Conchylorium, 1685-1692
Platyphysa prinsepi, freshwater snails65 million year old freshwater snail specimens that were engulfed by lava flows. Originating from the Late Cretaceous, Nagpur, India
Cylindroteuthis oweni Pratt, thunderbolt
Gryphaea dilatata, devils toenailThis giant hooked oyster also known as a devils toenail originates from Sowerby, Upper Jurassic, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England
Octopus illustrationPlate 20, watercolour by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker from the plate collection of the Murray Library
Squid illustrationTableau 3 from Albertus Sebas Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759
Bulinus sp. Biomphalaria sp. African snailsA collection of shells of species involved in the life cycle of blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma which gives rise to the disease Schistosomiasis in humans
Partula mirabilis, P. mooreana, French Polynesian tree snai
Hyolithes, primitive molluscShown here is Hyolithes, a Cambrian primitive mollusc. Hyolithes had an oval or cone-shaped, elongated shell and often occured in clusters along bedding planes of Cambrian shale
Ammonite selectionThree ammonites as follows: (Left to right) Oistoceras wrighti; Asteroceras obtusum (zonal index species); Tragophylloceras loscombi all specimens originate from the Jurassic rocks near Lyme Regis
Athleta luctator, fossil sea snailA fossil sea snail (Athleta luctator) dating from the late Eocene rocks around Barton, England