title: Shells of marine gastropod mollusks from cultural layers and the necropolis of Tauric Chersonese as tracers of trade and cultural connections in ancient times
abstract: The taxonomic and biogeographical composition of gastropod molluscs in the antique part of the fund collection of the State Historical and Archaeological museum-preserve Tauric Chersonese was diagnosed and analyzed. The complex of molluscs includes species from the Black Sea, Mediterranean, and Indo-Pacific groups. The shells of the European horn of Triton Charonia seguenzae were found only in Chersonese. To establish probable trade links between Chersonese and the Scythian-Sarmatian and Goth-Al
journal: Ruthenica Russian Malacological Journal