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Though I've found plenty of info to help me identify what I collected at Vaches Noires I haven't sat down to get it all straightened out, and I thought I 'd post these images of a few items found during 2-3 hours walking on the beach from Houlgate to Villers-sur-Mer. I'll see if I can't give it a go during the holidays and add a few tags, but I thank any of your suggestions :-). Of these #17 is not a fossil and include it as a comparison to #14-16 which are equally sized but much thiner and blue/black in colour. Also not sure whether #8 and #27 are fossils. Just at the beginning of the cliffs there are large numbers of rusty fragments among the large limestones and I am not sure to what extent these are remnants from shells of the military type or from boats or other harbour equipment (not that there is much of a harbour to speak of) or metal refuse. I didn't get a chance to inform myself during my short stay about this and haven't found hints online, but the Germans put a battery on top of the hill by Houlgate which was heavily shelled. The info regarding the geology of the site was swipped from the French and is only an indication of the geology of the beach where one is allowed to pick fossils, not the cliffs themselves which release fossils as they are eroded. I don't include any Griphaea dilatata which have a truly impressive heft. I wouldn't be surprised if these were used as hoes or tools and weapons back in the stone age. Cheers
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A nice Dictyonema flabelliforme dendroid graptolite from Oslo Fields in Norway. It's Tremadoc, Lower Ordovician in age and is thus maybe around 480 mya. Another angle :
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Hello all. I recently obtained this big Lytoceras sp. from Belmont D'azerques (France) I don't think this is a bad fossil for 10 dollars. Now, when I looked better I saw a big scratch. Could this be a bite mark? The scratch is 5cm long and 1 cm wide. The ammonite is Toarcien in age. Greetings
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From the album: SNP Vertebrates
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From the album: SNP Vertebrates
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From the album: SNP Vertebrates
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Hi everybody. Hi everybody, i've found those garsteropods in the cenomanian of Charentes-Maritimes, South-West of France. I thought the first one can be a worn Neoptyxis fleuriausa, but i'm not sure. The last looks like a Conus. I thank you in advance for your time and answers. Sophie. 1) 2)
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I traded some fossils for a bunch of European dinosaur eggshells a few years back, a mix from France and Spain. However, I stupidly misplaced the labels for these two sets of eggshells and now have no idea which site they came from (they appear to be from two different sites, judging by the colouration). I know it's a long shot, but if anyone with an interest in European dinosaur eggshells could shed some light on where these eggshells came from, it would be much appreciated. All are around 2mm tick.
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Hello Forum, Hopefully one of you is able and willing to help me with the identification of the leaf in the photograph below. It is approximately 1.5 cm long and was found in the lower Permian (Autunian) of Lodève, Languedoc, France. Any feedback is much appreciated! Tim
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Hi everybody. I ask your help once again to help me find what kind of shells are those two tiny and cute things : First, there is that column beside a brachiopod. It is between seven and eight millimeters of long and three millimeters wide :
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Most of the time what is found of this Rudist are fragments of the internal cast of its left valve. Complete, it can reach one meter. Those are three fragments found in different places of Port des Barques. The longest are abbout 11 centimeters. The largest and smallest one has a width of more than three centimeters.
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Hi again, here is the last piece i found from the cenomanian that could be sponge. It is calcitized because it fizzes with vinegar, so i think it also could be a strange concretion. If it's a sponge, in the book on the fossils of Charentes-Maritimes i have, the closest looking-like sponge photo i found is a Doryderma sp..
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Hello again, always in the cenomanian of Charentes-Maritimes in France, i have those pieces. I think they are sponges. 1) 2)
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Here is another piece which, i believe could be a sponge. It looks like a stachyspongia, but i see that it's a Campanian sponge.
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Among my founds i have Rynchostreonae, Pycnodonts, and also Rudists : a Polyconites, some Sphaerulites and some pieces of Ichthyosarcolites. But i wonder about this piece. Is it a Rudist, an Oyster, or something else ?
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Those ones make me think they could be sponges or bryozoans. 1) 2)
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I present you this tiny thing that sticks on an oyster shell. I believe it has great chances to be a sponge, what do you think ?
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A new fossil hunting in the Charentes Maritimes
fifbrindacier posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi, last week i was in holidays in the department of Charentes Maritimes, in a place where you have kilometers of uncovered seabed and where the nearest isle is reachable by foot when the tide is low.
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From the album: Plantae
From the late Carboniferous Westfalian at Calonne-Ricouart, France. Recieved on a trade with Gery (Nala) -
From the album: Plantae
Imprint of a stem. From the late Carboniferous Westfalian at Calonne-Ricouart, France. Recieved on a trade with Gery (Nala) -
From the album: Plantae
Imprint of a stem. From the late Carboniferous Westfalian at Calonne-Ricouart, France. Recieved on a trade with Gery (Nala) -
Hi all, Anyone know what species/genus this gastropod is? Never seen anything like this one before... It's from Rivière-sur-Tarn, a location in France that yields fossils from the Toarcian stage of the early Jurassic (approx 180 mya). Best regards, Max
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