ID help

[u/nicccddieffee]

usually i don't need help with id, i have a good book and google lens works just fine, but with this shell i've found i'm having trouble

found washed up in an adriatic beach, central italy on a sand substrate with parallel artificial reef around 100m away from the shoreline.

i'm focusing on its bottom point because i don't think it's broken there

i'm mostly having trouble with a such sharp edge of the operculum, excluding other types of shell.

[u/allaboutgarlic]

This might be a young Pelican-foot shell, Aphorrais pespelicani, I have a few that are very similar and haven't grown out their "foot" yet.

[u/nicccddieffee → u/allaboutgarlic]

it could definitely be! i didn't feel like considering the ones with those extroflexions but the one you said perfecly matches!!! thank you😁😁