Dear Conch-L


the link is a picture of an operculum

http://www.ganvana.com/UploadFiles/picone/20130327.jpg


My question is: Can we find the age of a shell by counting the rings on
it's operculum ? is the rings a kind of dendrochronology?

Best Regards



He Jing

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