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Good morning! I'm not finding a picture of this guy. Most my other barnacles are purple acorns. Haven't found another like this one. I'd like to know a little more about him. Is it a type of acorn barnacle? Thanks! (Sw Fl, on an oyster, pliocene) P.S. Just pulled it out of a bath, sorry it's still wet...
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I found this some years back at Pescadero Beach in California. I don't know if it's fossilized but if it is I think it would be from the Tertiary. Any help much appreciated.
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From the album: ocean stuff
Here was a nice surprise. I picked up this fossil cluster of barnacles and noticed a nice layer of agate underneath! When I processed the photo I took of it I saw that the light from my flash dispersed giving this rainbow effect. It's very small but now when I hold to the light I can see the little rainbows!-
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This nice barnacle I believe is genus Blannus - Is that correct? DR
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Found on the beach near Matoaka Cabins. This is the largest one I have found to date.
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Barnacles are very abundant at some exposures in North Carolina. So at these places( and this was one of them) it takes a unique specimen for me to pick it up. This one caught my eye. Rather large and complete, plus has a natural display "seat". C. concavus is kind of a catch all for many barnacles that are found in the Pliocene.
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Found in raw Micro-matrix from the piles at the Aurora Fossil Museum in 2014. I can't seem to find anything like it for comparison and identification. The grid is quarter inch squares... Help would be greatly appreciated! -Bill
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Hello all, As each year i made my trip to Troyes and her albian layers in Champagne. On the first day, we decided to head to a first exposure on the bank o the lake. We didnt find much : a few small ammonites, gastropods, bivalves and corals ..... also a few crab fragments, but definitly not much to brag about.... Most of the spot was covered by a layer of dead waterweed, hiding everything. After a quick meal we decided to head to spot 2, another spot by the lake. At second spot, it was even worst : the whole exposure was buried under dry weed. Since there was not much reason to keep on we decided to call it for the day ....with a very very poor loot. On second day i headed alone to our third spot, harder to reach. After a quite long walk in the mud, i reached the exposure. That one was totally free from weed. The spot was very rich. 90 % of the stuff i collected were crustacean parts. Actually the only intersting stuff... but very interesting As a teaser, here come a group view of a part of the etyus martini carapaces i found. The most abundant crustacean of the day. Stopping it for today, to be followed a trip in the numerous species of crustaceans i was able to find.... See you soon
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From the album: GMR Finds
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From the album: Greek Giant Balanids
Medium sized Balanid Concavus Concavus (barnacle) Greece Pliocene 4 cm length personal find -
From the album: Greek Giant Balanids
Medium sized Balanid Concavus Concavus (barnacle) Greece Pliocene 4 cm length personal find -
Hello fellow fossil-finders! I am back with a new fossil to be identified! Last Saturday I went to the Delaware Bay Beach with my cousins. We were looking for small fossils that were buried in this huge pile of rocks right at the edge of the water.The first fossil was found almost instantly. I believe it is honeycomb coral. Take a look. Next, I found something that I couldn't identify. It could be a barnacle for all I know. It has small grooves on the black side of the rock, seen here: Here is another view at the other side: Like always, if you can identify what this is, please tell me. Thanks! -Con
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Chalcedony Filled Barnacles Of The Late Miocene Of California
AncientEarth posted a topic in Member Collections
Thought I'd share my favorite (at least for a barnacle) find. The locality, from which is this from, is very well known for being a place rockhounds have collected "agates" out of the nearby stream, but I was curious to their source, if nothing else to also find larger specimens than those washed and tumbled in the river. After hiking around the hills a few times over the course of several trips, I'd stumbled upon a small cliff with a ledge underneath and a very dramatic drop off. The face of the fallen cliff was where the "agates" were falling out of and the entire slope before the dangerous drop was littered with specimens from 1 cm in size to full barnacle clusters about 10-12" wide. Many pieces still had the porous barnacle shell attached and with chalcedony forming outside of the shells. From what I could tell, me and a few rabbits were the only ones who had visited the steep ledge. I picked up a few pieces from this formation layer deposit and followed it into a neighboring valley where I found this gem on an adjacent trip, I was showing some friends the site. The species of barnacle is described as : Balanus gregarius (Conrad,. 1856) Late Miocene Period Santa Margarita Formation, Private Ranch, Santa Margarita, California, USA Would this may be considered a cast, since none of the original shell is present and the crystals formed into the barnacles chambers? The most common color chalcedony present in these specimens is a toss up between a semi-translucent white or light grey-blue.
