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From the album: Cretaceous Vancouver Island
Unidentified Clam Haslam Formation (Upper Santonian - Lower Campanian) Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, British Columbia -
From the album: Cretaceous Vancouver Island
Sphenoceramus naumanni Haslam Formation (Upper Santonian - Lower Campanian) Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, British Columbia -
From the album: Cretaceous Vancouver Island
Unidentified Clam Haslam Formation (Upper Santonian - Lower Campanian) Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, British Columbia -
Went out to a spot on the Nansemond River in Suffolk, VA, and it started to rain right after. We arrived, so we had to leave. Some iron concretions and this little thing were all I found. It looks like a clam, but it feels rougher than the other clams I’ve found so far. It was inside of a larger rock. I believe the area is mid-late Pleistocene. It’s about 2 cm wide.
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From the album: Calvert Cliffs
Molds from the Choptank Formation. Member unknown. Virginia Miocene -
A friend of mine found this recently in the area of Belton, Texas in the undivided early Cretaceous. He sent me the pic and asked if I knew what kind of crystal it was. I didn’t know so I asked him if I could post it here for him. I’m not so curious about the fossil clam as the type of crystal it is. If you need more pics it may take a while, because I think he is out of town for a while. @ynot It does not look like calcite really, but I suppose it could be. It just looks harder than that. I forgot to ask him to do a hardness scratch test. Let me know if you have any ideas. Kim
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I think this is plagiostoma a marine bivalve from the mid-cretaceous but I'm not 100 percent sure. it has a width of 4.5 inches and has multiple hidden arch lines that have been removed from abuse taken from the natural environment.
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Is this possibly a small clam steinkern or just an ordinary concretion? Or maybe a tiny, ancient UFO? 4.5 cm wide x 3.5 cm deep x 2 cm thick. Some of the openings go in a ways, pic 2, left side goes in about a 1/4 inch, same with left opening in pic 3. Pic 2 just looks like some 1950's movie UFO.
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Found this while hunt native American artifacts. It looks like a shell of some kind. Half I'm sure is chart. Please identify. Thanks railguy
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I recently received a fossilized clam that is shut tight. The clam seems heavier than I think it should be. Does it hurt the 'value' of the fossil if I ply it open? I saw online how some clams are crystallized.
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Common shell collected from Fossil Beach, Mornington, Victoria. Also known as Corbula ephamilla.
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My son found this in Oneonta NY and was wondering if anyone knows what kind of mussel this could be?
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very big fossil shell I found in the creek today 5/18/2018
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
hi everyone this is matt again today in the creek when I was fossil hunting I broke open a stone and found this giant clam in side it came from the kennedy N.Y. area which is all devonian I think ? here is a photo
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this is not a fossil but I don't know what it is ether ??
matthew textor posted a topic in Rocks & Minerals
Hi everyone this is matt again today in the creek I found this strange rock with red dots all over It dose anyone know what this rock is ??? here are some photos
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From the album: Vaches Noires spring 2018 and a bit of 2016
Lima (Plagiostoma) sp : an oxfordian bivalve from "les Vaches Noires" Cliffs - collected during winter 2017 -
I went out to the North Sulfur River (NSR) yesterday and went down a particular feeder creek. Along the creek I kept finding clam shells that looked modern, but not like any fresh water clam that I’ve ever seen before. I have never seen this category of preservation of clams in the NSR or elsewhere in Texas for that matter. The formation out there is Ozan of the Cretaceous. If they are Cretaceous they are quite remarkably well preserved. There are 2 varieties of clams as best I can tell. There is the smaller one that is smooth and then the larger that have a wavy or ruffled shell. Both have fairly heavy, thick shells that are a beautiful soft pink/baige pearly color. Here are the smaller smooth ones. One up close. Here are the ones with wavy shells. I also found 2 modern fresh water clam shells that are common in Texas . Their shells are pretty thin and light. Anyway, can anyone tell me if the first 2 kinds are even fresh water? If so I have never seen a fresh water clam like them. I think they are Cretaceous, but I have never seen such preservation in Texas. Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.
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I found this as a kid in an old surface mine (I was told) in the upper peninsula of Michigan near lake Gogebic. I found it in a large pile of loose sand. It looks and feels like sandstone, but maybe harder. It has what looks like a "foot" on the bottom and a hinge in back. I would appreciate any speculation on what it is. Just a funny shaped rock? Thanks.
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Small Pyritized Brachiopod UPDATE - Pyritized Buchiola sp.
DevonianDigger posted a topic in Fossil ID
UPDATE: Thanks to the help of @Fossildude19, @Al Dente and @abyssunder, (plus others), I'm currently listing this as a Buchiola sp., a bivalve from the upper Hamilton. This little fella is about 8mm across. I have yet to find another example at the site. It was found in the pyrite beds, so it's a float from somewhere, but I couldn't tell you where. It's from Penn Dixie, it's Middle Devonian, Hamilton Fm. That's what I know. Absolutely beautiful little piece. But I have no idea what it is.
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Another nice double valve bivalve from Columbus County. Common as a single valve find, but very uncommon with both valves.
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Single valves are an extremely common find at this site. However, this is the first double valve specimen I have found. A very interesting looking little bivalve.
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Self collected at a sand pit in Columbus County N.C. Most of the time these are found as single valves with the "spines" completely broken off.
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I had a few concretions crack open from pit 11 in mazon creek recently(freezing method). I don't always check them as they are outside sitting in buckets in my back yard or garage, so not sure exactly when it cracked, but found it a few days ago. I have the 2 books on identifying the different mazon creek fossils, but unfortunately 95% of the concretions that crack open look nothing like the pictures, or nothing discernible anyways. I know many of the fossils found here are jellyfish, which to me doesn't look much different than the duds. This one has me lost as it's obviously not a dud, but what it is I'm not sure. At first I thought it might be a shark tooth, but I don't see any serrations on the part sticking out. I've gotten a couple clam concretions, and the texture of this one is nothing like those. Those are the only 2 things that came to mind with this piece, but as you can see, more of the fossil is buried in there. I thought about putting this in the fossil prep section as well as you don't typically "prep" a mazon creek fossil other than cracking it with a hammer of freeze/thaw, but to get a better ID I might need to try to free it altogether. Also I've only gotten about 4 hours of sleep in the last 2 days, so I forget to put in a size reference. It's about 3-4" at its longest part. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. @Nimravis I know you've done quite a bit of mazon collecting, so would greatly appreciate your input as well. Thanks in advance all.
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A very uncommon find. Especially without it crumbling in your hand upon touching.
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