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Howdy all, This is a fossil scallop valve I found in the Coon Creek Formation of Mcnairy County, Tennessee a few years ago. I've heard of two scallop genus coming from that area, this being neithea and pecten. Which one would this be?
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Am I the only one who loves the scent of the sediment in the Coon Creek formation?
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Take this proposal with a grain of salt. Posting it here because I didn't know where else to post it. References: https://www.mindat.org/taxon-8521156.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callianassa https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36095673/ https://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/crustacea/Decapoda/Neotrypaea californiensis/index.htm C. mortoni material I used in my research: Proposal:
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These are a few things that some of my family members found when we went on a hunt in the Coon Creek Formation in McNairy County, Tennessee. I'm pretty sure the smaller one is just some hematite formation but I'm not sure about the other one.
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I have this Callianassa mortoni claw that I found back in 2018 and I was wondering what this structure is, I haven't seen it preserved on any others.
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Not exactly sure whether this is new information, has already been observed, or if this is just me misinterpreting fossils, but I recently noticed that there are two species of the Coon Creek Formation that look very similar. That being Pterotrigonia thoracica and Trigonia eufaulensis. I noticed while observing a gallery made by @Herb that each species looks very similar, and are almost indistinguishable. Upon observing other examples of each species, I came up with this conclusion: P. thoracica typically has 14-15 ribs on its shell, while T. eufualensis has 16-17. Let me know what you all think of this! The P. trigonia is a specimen that I found in 2018, while the T. eufualensis is from @Herb's gallery.
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Hey guys I have some fossils I collected from the Coon Creek of Tennessee. The resident paleontologist, and other trip goers told me to use floor wax to seal these delicate fossils. They aren't permineralized and therefore crumble and crack very easily. Is there a better alternative to floorwax? I read both yes and nos on its usage. I don't like modifying fossils if I don't have to, but I've had multiple fall apart already.
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Greetings! I'm retired from a geospatial career, a geology major who did most of my collecting from the 1950s through the early 1990s. My collection is a disappointment to kids who want to see dinosaur fossils - it is 99% invertebrates and plants. For decades, I relied on paper notes, but am now cataloging using Trilobase. I am up to 1,800 specimens, but some catalog number represent dozens of individual species and some specimens (i.e. amber) have up to 67 catalog numbers for individual bugs, plant material, etc. I still have a lot to learn, thus my participating in Fossil Forum and other fossil sites. But I hope to be able to reciprocate by helping others whenever I am able.
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I have been finding associated pieces of this large bone in the same spot for several years now. Starting to come together to create a possibly diagnostic specimen. The site is in the Late Cretaceous Coon Creek formation, a near shore environment on the Eastern shore of the Western Interior Sea. The site is predominantly marine, however carbonized wood is very common and the rare bones terrestrial vertebrates have been found here before. My initial guess was something along the lines of turtle plastron, but it just doesn’t seem to quite match any I’ve seen in papers so I thought I would ask for opinions here. The bone structure is very dense and heavy. Most of it is covered by a thin layer of hardened ferrous clay that is difficult to remove. Scale: black cubes are 2cm on each edge
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Here is a very mineralized mosasaur vertebra that I found in Decature county Tennessee last weekend. Coon Creek formation. Not real common.
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I recently went on a fossil dig at Coon Creek in Adamsville, TN. This fossil was found, but we were not exactly sure what it is! We were told it was a baculite? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!