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Class: Gastropoda. 3 specimens, 1 of which is held in the open display 'Orkney Shore'. All large, off white and smooth but still have their raised vertical ridges.
ID: Z555.1.209
Class: Gastropoda. 2 specimens. Various shades of grey which form a speckled tessellating pattern. Conical but with convex sides (cyrtoconoid). Found on rocky shores around seaweed and in rock pools.
ID: Z555.1.21
Class: Bivalvia. 6 specimens. 3 right and 3 left valves. Difficult to say if any of them belonged to the same animal. Long and oval, very thin and semi-translucent.
ID: Z555.1.210
Class: Bivalvia. 5 specimens. All have both valves still connected at the hinge. Small, oval and thin. Off-white in colour and glossy with visible concentric striae.
ID: Z555.1.211
Class: Bivalvia. 6 specimens. All with both valves still attached at the hinge. Roughly oval and robust with very well defined concentric ridges.
ID: Z555.1.212
Class: Bivalvia. 3 specimens. 1 with both valves still attached, 1 left valve and 1 right valve, but given their size difference are unlikely to be from the same animal.
ID: Z555.1.213
Class: Bivalvia. 23 specimens. 11 have both valves still attached, 7 left valves and 5 right valves. Very small, thin and semi translucent.
ID: Z555.1.214
Class: Bivalvia. 5 specimens. 4 specimens have both valves still attached at the hinge and 1 individual right valve. Oval in shape with a square posterior edge.
ID: Z555.1.215
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Class: Bivalvia. 3 specimens. All individual left valves. Thick, fairly large, white shells with clear, well defined concentric growth lines as well as finer concentric striae.
ID: Z555.1.216
Class: Bivalvia. 5 specimens. 4 left valves and 1 right valve. 1 left and 1 right also fit together in such a way that they were clearly from the same animal.
ID: Z555.1.217