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Cretaceous Bivalve from Monmouth County, New Jersey
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Granocardium sp. (bivalve shell) Upper Cretaceous Basal Navesink Formation Monmouth Group Bayonet Farm Holmdel, New Jersey-
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Cretaceous Bivalve from Monmouth County, New Jersey
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From the album: Cretaceous
Cucullaea antrosa (bivalve shell) Upper Cretaceous Basal Navesink Formation Monmouth Group Bayonet Farm Holmdel, New Jersey-
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Cretaceous Bivalve from Monmouth County, New Jersey
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From the album: Cretaceous
Arca obesa (bivalve shell) Upper Cretaceous Basal Navesink Formation Monmouth Group Bayonet Farm Holmdel, New Jersey-
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Cretaceous Bivalve from Monmouth County, New Jersey
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From the album: Cretaceous
Liopistha protexta (bivalve shell) Upper Cretaceous Basal Navesink Formation Monmouth Group Bayonet Farm Holmdel, NJ.-
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From the album: Just Above the Iridium Layer
Cucullaea vulgaris (bivalve shell- internal mold) Paleocene Pinna Layer Hornerstown Formation Manasquan River Basin Freehold, New Jersey -
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From the album: Just Above the Iridium Layer
Pecten argillensis (bivalve shell) Paleocene Pinna Layer Hornerstown Formation Manasquan River Basin Freehold, New Jersey -
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From the album: Just Above the Iridium Layer
Crassatella sp. (bivalve) Paleocene Pinna Layer Hornerstown Formation Manasquan River Basin Freehold, New Jersey a gift from Ralph Johnson -
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From the album: Ordovician
Bivalve internal molds Upper Ordovician Verulam Formation James Dick Quarry Brechin, Ontario -
Internal mold of bivalve from the Merchantville Formation, New Jersey
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From the album: Cretaceous
Glycymeris mortoni (internal mold of bivalve shell "bittersweet clam") Upper Cretaceous Merchantville Formation Matawan Group Mattawan, New Jersey-
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Bivalves from the Merchantville Formation, New Jersey
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From the album: Cretaceous
Legumen concentricum (bivalve casts) Upper Cretaceous Merchantville Formation Matawan Group Matawan, New Jersey-
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Bivalve from the Merchantville formation, New Jersey
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From the album: Cretaceous
Inoceramus sp. (bivalve cast- both valves) Upper Cretaceous Merchantville Formation Matawan Group Matawan, New Jersey- 1 comment
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Bivalve from the Merchantville Formation, New Jersey
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From the album: Cretaceous
Cymella bella texana (bivalve) Upper Cretaceous Merchantville Formation Matawan Group Matawan, New Jersey-
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From the album: Elcoincoin collection : 1 - Albian of Troyes
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Hello everyone! Now that I've started to split some rocks from my local creeks (Mimico Creek and Etobicoke Creek, Georgian Bay Formation, Upper Ordovician), I'd like some help to identify what I've found. @JUAN EMMANUEL, can you help? Rock #1: This type of bivalve is very common, but I can't decide if it's Ambonychia sp. or Byssonychia sp. The book I have says that they both occur in the Georgian Bay Formation, and they look very similar except Byssonychia sp. "has strong radiating ribs rather than (fine radiating) striae," which is what Ambonychia sp. has. (Hessin, p. 148) What do you think? Rock #2: I've started to find this type of bivalve quite frequently. It looks like the pictures of Cymatonota sp. in the book that I have (Hessin, p. 145), but I'm not sure if this genus exists in the Georgian Bay Formation since Hessin states that "it is moderately common in the Verulam and Coburg formations" (p. 145) but he makes no mention of it occurring in the Georgian Bay Formation. Hessin does state that another similar-looking bivalve can be found in the Georgian Bay Formation: Colpomya sp. (p. 146), so perhaps it could be that? Hessin also discusses a bivalve community that is commonly found in the Georgian Bay Formation that consists of Ambonychia/Byssonychia and Modiolopsis (p. 52), so could this be Modiolopsis sp. instead? As you'll see in Rock #3, the bivalves in Rock #1 and Rock #2 are often found together. Rock #3: "front" - bivalve community, but which genera? Rock #3: "back" - bivalve community (which genera?) along with a couple of brachiopods (I think). It may be a bit too difficult to identify the brachiopods, but I'm hoping that someone out there might be able to - perhaps Onniella sp. or Strophomena sp. for the one on top (positive and negative)? Rock #4: positive and negative of a brachiopod - again, it may be too faint to identify but I'll keep my fingers crossed that someone can help me. Maybe Dalmanella sp. or Paucicrura sp. or Resserella sp.? Thanks everyone! Monica
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Hi all, As well as being a great fossil enthusiast, I also love finding modern remains of life and nature. Like a few of you already know, I am also quite fond of seashells (fossil seashells are one of my favorite things). Minerals also interest me, though I don't know much about them. And anything else to do with nature will get me interested. I just came back yesterday from some fantastic holidays in Greece, and didn't come back empty-handed! At first, we stayed for a few days at one of our friend's house on the Greek island Paros. Then, we spent one night in Athens to visit the famous Acropolis, before spending a few days at Gerolimenas, a small village at the tip of the Mani peninsula (Peloponnese). Finally we stayed two nights in Nafplio, in the north of the Peloponnese, and then returned to the cold and rainy Netherlands. Surely holidays to remember! Of course, I was constantly looking around for fossils, seashells, and other things, enjoying the slightly nerdy activities we all here enjoy so much. Though no fossils were found, I did find a few other things. Here are my different hauls! Chapter 1: Paros Paros is a lovely, typically Greek island, in the Aegean sea. The first few days here, having visited several different beaches, I found nearly nothing. Then one day, after having eaten a delicious grilled squid, I strolled on the beach, and bingo! Seashells everywhere! I quickly grabbed a plastic bag and filled it up with little treasures. I was really stunned by the beautiful Noah's Ark shells. That was the only beach where I made finds, but the finds were so great that it was enough to leave the place with good memories and happy hands. Total haul (things on top are not seashells, but other miscellaneous things): Some of my favorites: A small Diodora graeca: A very nice Haliotis mykonosensis: A beautiful Neverita josephina: A touch-looking crab claw: Some cool pink-red urchin spines: A small but stunning Arca noae:
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I have a secret place in Texas in which I've found many excellent fossils of sea creatures, such as clams or mollusks and other shellfish. I may also have found bones of some kind, and saw impressions that may have been dinosaur tracks. I am no paleontologist and would not know what made the impressions, but I know that dinosaur tracks were found in other nearby areas. In particular, I found large, intact, fossilized shells there that match some of the photos of "bivalves" I've seen online. I found many smaller cone shaped shell fossils, and oddly shaped rocks that may have been bones. Plus other things, such as rocks that seemed to contain tiny plant or animal fossils. The fossils were plentiful and easy to find, with little or no digging needed, so I may be the only one who knew of this place, which is in a washed out gulley in a remote part of a public city or county park (NOT a state park). My question -- can people legally gather fossils from such a place? Would paleontologists be interested in knowing about such a place? I no longer live near there and worry that one of Texas' new toll roads may have destroyed the site by now. Should I have said something, to prevent that? Unless somebody else has discovered the place, there are probably still some fossils around the site, even if a toll road was put in, but they may no longer lay atop the ground like they once did. I accidentally forgot to pack my fossil collection when moved, so I have no samples or photos to show anybody.
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Noob here. We tried our luck near Andalusia, but as expected the water was too high. We ended up in Sepulga River and this was all we walked away with, but still curious what might be here. There were lots of new mollusks strewn about and I grabbed these just as a MASSIVE huntsman spider chased me off.
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My girlfriend, Valerie and I were visiting my aunt in West Palm Beach, Florida. She is 90 and lives in a senior residence. I wasn't planning to go fossil hunting or even thinking about fossils. However, on our last night there, we were walking in the neighborhood to burn off a few calories when I spotted a number of fossil shells in front of an apartment complex. We spent about half an hour searching the shells for complete ones in good condition- found over twenty species. Valerie got into it too and found some excellent specimens. After that we began spotting fossil shells everywhere. It's amazing how much you don't see unless you're really looking. Since this isn't our usual stomping ground- could use some ID help with these:
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Last week I had a great time to hunt in the Netherlands/Belgium for shark teeth. I was mainly at a good site near Antwerp but those finds I will post in the next days. What i want to show you here are the teeth and other things, which I found on various beaches there. For example i was in Cadzand or in Vlissingen. Too bad the shark teeth dont really have a good quality but nonetheless I am happy with my finds But pictures say more than words... Zwarte Polder: There its very difficult to find shark teeth with a good quality and the beach is often full with tourists. The fossiliferous sand comes from the Westerscheide so from eroding layers underwater. The fossils come mainly from the Miocene, Pliocene until the Pleistocene. Here are some "shabby" finds: (shark and ray teeth) The shark teeth are also very small ... This tooth is with 1.2 cm one of the prettiest: A damaged Geleocerdo: Beside of the shark teeth i also found some fish vertebrates. The biggest one is 1.5 cm long:
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I have had this fossil encrusted rock since the 1990's and I thought rather than photograph it again I would make a video, as if I was flying over it. No drone was involved however, I just used my Canon compact.
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Anomalodesmata Bivalve from Madison County, New York
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Cimitaria recurva (complete bivalve-both valves) Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale Hamilton Group Deep Springs Road quarry Lebanon, NY. This is by far my largest and best specimen to date. -
My previous post was on the Gastropods that I collected from shell pit piles that were dropped off on the Sanibel Causeway island, so I figured I need to post the Bivalves. I believe these cane from a pit with Pliocene - Pleistocene material from the Caloosahatchee Formation (1.8 - 2.5 MYO). I'm hoping that my ids are correct. Families: Arcidae and Noetiidae Arca wagneriana
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Hello all! Well, I finally hammered into the matrix that @joshuajbelanger sent me as part of my recent "rolling auction" win. The two chunks that were easier to separate didn't yield much - a couple of small shark teeth and a ray tooth plate (I did save the leftover material so I can look through it again just in case I missed something), but the harder, white chunk gave up quite a few invertebrates! Here are a few pictures: Picture #1: The circular object reminds me of a foram - is this possible? Picture #2: Bivalves at the top and gastropods on the bottom Picture #3: The largest specimen I found - a pretty valve from a bivalve Thanks for looking, and thanks for any help you can offer re: identification! (Although Viola will probably end up keeping all of these items since she loves shells, so if the specimens are too small/worn to identify, then no worries at all - Viola doesn't really care yet about identifying her fossils beyond "shell" and "snail" ) Monica
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A TFF Gathering in an Upstate New York Middle Devonian Paradise
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Yesterday was a planned get together of TFF member friends at one of my favorite Middle Devonian localities- Deep Springs Road in Madison County southwest of Hamilton. It is the easternmost exposure of the Moscow Formation and the Windom Shale- the same formation exposed at Penn Dixie- but a very different faunal content. Biodiversity is the primary feature of this site and this outing added to an already long species list. This trip was actually a long time in planning. Frank (frank8147), a long time collector in New Jersey's Cretaceous streams, had been expressing to me a desire to visit Upstate New York and try his hand at Paleozoic collecting. He told me he and his girlfriend were planning a trip and once we were able to set a date- which was right on the heels of my own trip to Germany, I decided to invite a few other TFF friends. Tim (fossildude19), Dave (Darktooth), Diane (Mediospirifer), Dom (Dsailor), and Tony (njfossilhunter) were able to make it. Tony and I drove up together. Thanks Tony for all of that driving. Dom and Frank were new to the site. Tim and Dave brought family members and a good time was had by all. A rain shower in the middle of the afternoon drove some away, Diane and her husband, Tony, and I remained and I made most of my best finds late in the day. Here's a few pics: Here is (left to right) Dave, Tim, Tony, and Dave's older son.
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Hi all, Today at a flea market I purchased a small handful of shells found on the Kaloot (NL), where you can find fossil sharkteeth as well as fossil seashells (and other fossils). He assured me that at least some (if not all) are fossils, which is true: the Pliothyrina in the middle is extinct, so it has to be a fossil; and many of the astartes on the bottom seem to be fossilized too. But I'm not sure that all the shells are fossilized. Therefore I was wondering, does anyone know how to separate fossil shells from modern ones? Best regards, Max
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