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From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaeNaticarius castrenoides (Woodring, 1928)Location: Quality Aggregates (Pinecrest Sand Member), Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: Not as inflated as N. plicatella and the radial lines from the suture not as profound. Common within Caribbean Pliocene faunas. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaeNaticarius cf. canrena (Linnaeus, 1758)Location: Quality Aggregates (Pinecrest Sand Member), Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: ExtantNotes: This immature and crabbed shell is most similar to the Colorful or Gaudy Moon Snail. Compare to recent N. canrena. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaePolinices caroliniana (Conrad, 1841)Location: APAC (Pinecrest Sand Member), Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: Glossy shell higher than wide with an open and distinctive umbilicus. Also found the Duplin Formation. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaeStigmaulax guppiana (Toula, 1909)Location: Quality Aggregates (Pinecrest Sand Member), Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: Distinct lines radiating from the suture to the umbilicus. A wide-spread species found in the Pliocene of the Caribbean and Central America. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaeStigmaulax polypum Olsson & Harbinson, 1953)Location: SMR Phase 10 (Pinecrest Sand Member), Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: Smaller and taller than S. guppiana. Faint lines radiating from the suture. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaeSigatica bathyora (Woodring, 1928)Location: APAC (Pinecrest Sand Member), Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: Distinctively shaped rare shell with large uncovered umbilicus. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaeDallitesta coensis (Dall, 1903)Location: Quality Aggregates (Pinecrest Sand Member), Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: Taller than wide. Well preserved shells are glossy with a partially covered umbilicus. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaeEuspra perspectiva (Rogers & Rogers, 1837)Location: Immokalee (Golden Gate Member), Collier County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: Small shell, relatively high naticid with partially covered umbilicus. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaeNeverita duplicata (Say, 1822)Location: SMR Phase 10 (Pinecrest Member), Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: ExtantNotes: Aka Common Atlantic Shark Eye. Compare to recent N. duplicate. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaeTectonatica pusilla (Say, 1822)Location: SMR Phase 8 (Pinecrest Sand Member), Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: Tiny shell with covered umbilicus. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaeSinum perspectivum (Say, 1831)Location: SMR Phase 10 (Pinecrest Member), Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: ExtantNotes: Aka Common Baby Ear. Compare to modern examples of S. perspectivum. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily NaticidaeSinum polandi (M. Smith, 1936)Location: SMR Phase 10 (Pinecrest Member), Sarasota County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: Similar to Sinum perspectivum but taller and more inflated. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order [unassigned] Caenogastropoda Family CerithiidaeCerithium preatratum Olsson & Harbinson, 1953Location: Bonita Grande Pit (Golden Gate Member), Lee County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: This image of a better preserved specimen replaces MR 9440-1016 posted previously. -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily StrombidaeLobatus leidyi (Heilprin, 1886)Location: Bonita Grande Pit (Golden Gate Member), Lee County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: A common species in the Lower Caloosahatchee Formation, it is also found in the Upper Pliocene Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation. Compare to an excellently preserved specimen from the Caloosahatchee Formation. LINK -
From the album: Gastropods of the Tamiami Formation
Order LittorinimorphaFamily StrombidaeLobatus williamsi (Olsson & Petit, 1964)Location: Bonita Grande Pit (Golden Gate Member), Lee County, Florida USA. Status: ExtinctNotes: Large Strombid with a flaring aperture lip and locally abundant in the Golden Gate Member of the Tamiami Formation. Similar to pictured Lobatus cf. gigas but does not have strong development of shoulder nodes. -
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Hi everyone, Here is an astarte seashell, but I'd like to put a definitive ID on it (Genus + species). It's from the Westerschelde, NL, and ages from the Pliocene. Any clues? Thanks in advance! Max
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24th Annual Aurora Fossil Festival & TFF Member Meet Up
SailingAlongToo posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
2017 AURORA FOSSIL FESTIVAL AND TFF MEMBER MEET UP The 24th Annual "Aurora Fossil Festival" will be held this Friday through Sunday, May 26 - 28, 2017, in Aurora, NC. There will be a parade down Main Street at 1100 am on Saturday morning, educational displays at the Community Center from 1000 am - 4 pm Saturday, Paleontology Lectures going on throughout the day Saturday AND fresh piles of overburden from the Lee Creek Mine dumped around town, ripe and ready for screening and fossil hunting all weekend. Multiple piles of "FRESH" matrix will be near / adjacent to the Aurora Fossil Museum. There will also be a Live Fossil Auction starting at 3 pm on Saturday, lasting until........... If you have never been, you should definitely plan a trip. If you have never had the "privilege" of hunting Lee Creek Mine matrix, this is your chance for FRESH / VIRGIN material. (Items up for auction can be seen at the Aurora Fossil Museum's Facebook page, link below.) In addition, numerous TFF Members will be attending / displaying / speaking at the festival. It's a great time to put a face with the screen name. Here is what you need to know: Aurora Fossil Museum - Facebook Page and website: https://www.facebook.com/Aurora-Fossil-Museum-344894278856425/ http://aurorafossilmuseum.org/ I will have my laptop and camera with me and will be updating this post in "semi"-real time with photos and information from the Festival. Any TFF Members at the Festival can stop by and see me on the porch of the Community Center and I will let you use the camera and laptop to log in and post your own photos / info. If you see someone walking around in a T Rex costume, that should be Mrs. SailingAlongToo. For those Members who can't make it, check back on this post regularly on Saturday for the updates. I for one am looking forward to Dr. Perez's talk on Cookiecutter Sharks!!!! Hope to see / meet as many TFF Members as possible!!! Cheers, Jack
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Hi all, my grandpa recently gave me this snail shell he brought from a Florida holiday some decades ago (he said he "pulled it out of the ocean"; but that's all details I have on the finding situation). I saw this post by Herb with Florida shells, one of which looks quite similar: For the one in my images I'm wondering whether it is a recent exemplar or a fossil one. In a German fossils forum where I showed the images someone tended to recent because of the slight color remnants. On the other hand, it looks really similar to the fossil busycon contrarium I saw here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busycon_contrarium Any hints regarding recent vs. fossil and more specific ID are highly welcome! The Euro coin for scale is about 0.9 inch in diameter. Many thanks in advance Jan P.S.: Very nice forum you have here!
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This beautiful little oyster was self collected. It was dug out of the formation with both valves, always a great way to find bivalves. Was originally assigned to genus, Conradostrea but is now Myrakeena. Lit: The Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, II. Clayton Ray, editor. LATE PLIOCENE AND EARLY PLEISTOCENE MOLLUSCA FROM THE JAMES CITY AND CHOWAN RIVER FORMATIONS AT THE LEE CREEK MINE, by Lauck W. Ward and Blake W. Blackwelder. Page 113
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References: Sorbini, L. (1987): Biogeography and Climatology of Pliocene Messinian Fossil Fish of Eastern-Central Italy. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 1987, Vol. 14, pp. 1-85. Sorbini, L. & Bannikov, A. F. (1988): On the Pliocene fish locality at Fiume Marecchia, Italy. Paleontological Journal, 1988, 1, pp. 121-123
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The "Cone Whale" is now on display at CCNHM, Charleston, SC!
Boesse posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
Hey all, Our collections manager and I have had a pretty busy week, and finished the first phase of the installation of the "Cone Whale" - a baleen whale skeleton collected from the Lee Creek Mine by Lee Cone (President of the Special Friends of the Aurora Museum). The specimen is the most complete whale skeleton ever collected from the mine, and was hauled out a few bones at a time over a two week period in Spring 2007. It includes a partial disarticulated cranium with an earbone (petrosal/periotic), left and right mandibles, all cervical vertebrae, most of the thoracics, and possibly a couple of lumbar vertebrae - and about a dozen ribs. The skeleton also has numerous shark bite marks, which just yesterday we marked with a series of red triangular markers. The new exhibit features artwork by yours truly, shark-bitten ribs in a magnifying box, and in the future will also include a number of specimens that the "Cone Whale" was preserved with. The "Cone Whale" shares a number of features in common with rorquals (family Balaenopteridae - the pleat-throated whales, e.g. humpback, fin, blue, minke) and gray whales (family Eschrichtiidae). The two families are closely related, with gray whales possibly being included within the rorquals based on DNA. Fossils like this hold promise to shed light on the early diversification of this group. The "Cone Whale" is a new species and was not represented amongst the fossils described in the Whitmore and Kaltenbach chapter of the Lee Creek IV volume - I've only seen a couple of other earbones of this taxon, so it is safe to say that this is the rarest baleen whale from the mine (and hence, a very lucky find). Lee Cone graciously donated this specimen to our museum in October 2016 and we've been painstakingly caring for it, and attempting to further reassemble fragments of the specimen. Turns out, Lee was nearly exhaustive in his efforts, and we've only been able to match perhaps 10% of the isolated fragments. The entire skeleton is highly fractured because it went through a dragline and was dumped - yet all the bones stayed in approximate position. Many parts were found by bulk screening of sediment. Come see the "Cone Whale" at College of Charleston soon - it opens to the public today for the first time ever! "Like" our page on Facebook or follow us on twitter for more frequent museum news and updates! -Bobby Boessenecker, Ph.D. College of Charleston Charleston, SC
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Today I brought home a bunch of unprepped echinoid materail that I use to find at Scotia Bluffs in Northern California. This rock here looks a bit ugly at the moment, but there are several echy's in this rock and the color on these is a bit rare and should prep out quite nicely? Im going to try and get this one done before I leave on my next fossil hunting trip, next week. I really do like this rock, Its got some really good potential. RB
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Can anyone help me identify the fossil to the left? They were all found in the same area
Forrest posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello, looking for help in identifying the fossil to the left. I found them all in a river
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I again went to my other property today to put my travel trailer away. My youngest son was there to help,,,, so, I asked him if he wouldnt mind putting in some boxes for me to take back home. Besides all kinds of other stuff, I ran into this big beauty today. This is Patinopectin carinus. Not sure if that is spelled right. Comes from Scotia Bluffs in Humboldt County Northern California. I used to sell a heck of a lot of these and sure am glad I saved one for me. Very hard to get the 'ears'/'wings' on these things. This one is much nicer than most. Its now in my fossil office. Oh, the rock this is on is a bit over 4 inches thick. Quite heavy! RB
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