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The carnivorous snails have tongues that are covered with thousands of tiny teeth to tear apart food. The gastropod fossils from Jacksboro, TX shown below are from the Pennsylvanian, Finis formation, and these gastropods lived about 300 million years ago.
Both slugs and snails are gastropods and belong to phylum Mollusca. Both have soft bodies with a muscular foot. Both slugs and snails are similar in many respects but with only a few differences. One of the noticeable differences is that snails have a shell on their backs whereas slugs do not have shells. The shell is coiled and about one to one and one-half inches long. Both slugs and snails have either a dark green, tan, light gray, or black body. Some of the varieties have patterns or spots on their bodies.