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Found in ammonitico rosso of the Ionian zone (Mavron Oros, NW Epirus, Greece) amongst ammonite fossils (Calliphylloceras, Harpoceras, Hildoceras, Phylloceras etc). Close to 7 cm in length and mostly crushed on the other side. Is this a turritella or could the shape and rings belong to a cephalopod? Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Hello everyone! Been almost 2 years since I last visited that site and left in situ a nice multiblock. I was thinking again and again @taj reply and tried to correct that mistake. However, every year the site seems to be less accessible and there are rumors that it's forbidden to search there for fossils due to the proximity of the archeological site of the theater, regardless the fact the outcrop is located within private land. Nevertheless, last Saturday 13/11 we visited the place with a friend. Visited 3 possible outcrops without much results. 1. Carnian exposure with partially pyritized ammonites - overexploited, zero finds. 2. Ammonitico Rosso quarry, no finds but for some slices on marble blocks. 3. Around the theater, near that private place. One nice slice of the Rosso early Jurassic quarry. 100kgs of boulders collected in order to be cleaned. This outcrop has very high density of fossils, due to the absent of sediments, leading in amazing multiblocks full of ammonites, nautiloids and orthoconics. The obvious characteristic of this formation is th presence of Mn oxide, which gives this lovely dark brown/rusty color. Smaller blocks were also collected. Presence of fossils indicate high possibility to find more after abrasion. Before leaving, we visited the museum and bought some prepared ones. You can see how packed are. I tried to find another exposure of Hallstatt facies so I had to find a map, which does not exist online. Found a governmental library and bought it! Next Saturday 20/11 we visited again Epidaurus area. Using a ruler, I put all possible outcrops on my phone, so we were prepared. Unfortunately, all these outcrops were not accessible or altered due to agriculture, buildings and so on. Out of 13 visited locations, none gave fossils. We found another Ammonitico Rosso, but the quality was poor due to tectonic dynamics and extreme deformation. Sunday 21/10, a third visit to the place with another friend. We started locating an outcrop with Miocene gastropods. Near that place, we found another site with some Cretaceous imprints of Pectenoids Then we joined with another guy and headed to search again in that overexploited locality. My friend found a partial Carnian ammonite replaced by jasper and gave it to me. I don't keep partials anymore, but this is really beautiful and rare. The same guy found a nice 4-5cm Johannites sp laying on the ground. It was steinkern but still lovely! Moved further to explore the place a little more and we found something like stromatolites, composed of Mn oxide, limestone of the same fossiliferous site around the theater and possibly, ammonites with complete replacement with Mn oxide.

Hi, I found these ammonite specimens in the Oxfordian Ammonitico Rosso facies from the Baleriac Islands, Spain. I know that the preservation state is quite poor but I would like to get some help identifyng the genus and species. I am not familiar with ammonite description but here you have a very basic description of what I see: Specimen 1: No ribs, oxycone/discocone, involut, carinate? Specimen 2 (Taramelliceras sp?): two pair of ribs (primary and secondary), oxycone/discocone, involut Specimen 3: No ribs, discocone, carinate? Specimen 1