A website link is below that can be used to help identify them. The site is comprehensive with a lot of gastropods that will take a while to look through to match what fossil is what.
This French fossil website is an amazing piece of website development and paleontological data that was written at least 5 years ago. The PHP/SQL search method is nice that allows visual sorting on 1543 stored specimens.
Thanks to Michael Hesemann of http://www.foraminifera.eu for these specimens.
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Nice!
Some of those gastropods look very familiar--I just looked through a bunch of tiny Eocene molluscs from the Isle of Wight (England) that a friend brought back last fall. This excellent website: http://www.dmap.co.uk/fossils/ was a big help. Many are probably the same species as your French specimens.
Cheers,
--Howard (Calgary, Canada)
Thanks for the link. I can see why that site got an award. The photography is very sharp with the author choosing a black background. It would be nice if the pictures were of higher resolution but I am guessing since there are so many, server storage could be an issue.
The fossils I am working with are maybe 1 mm and were magnified 40x.
Have you tried to photograph any of the molluscs you received?
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