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From the album: Oklahoma Paleozoic Fossil Finds
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Today I spotted a bit of ecphora shell exposed in a sandy/clay stream bank. When I removed it from the bank I was shocked to find it was whole and HUGE! As far as I know it is pretty rare to find these in unbroken condition and this is the largest one I've ever come across. I got it home and started cleaning it off. Most of the sand/clay washed away easily with gentle running water and a soft bristled brush, but the portion that was exposed to the air seems to have cemented itself to the shell and turned a whitish color, while the portion that was not exposed was dark brown and softer. I've picked away at the "cemented" stuff (sorry, I don't really know the correct terms to describe this) with dental picks and made some progress but I am worried I'll damage the shell doing this. Can anyone offer any advice on how to finish cleaning this off without damaging the shell? Thanks. I've included a few photos and I'm happy to provide more detail if needed
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What is this cross section of a 5 cm tall gastropod from the Pennsylvanian Naco Formation of Arizona? The photo of whole gastropods that are similar and are found in the same formation at the Kohl’s Ranch site. Photo by Caty Sandoval. What are these? This may help (I have a good guess): https://www.dallaspaleo.org/resources/Documents/PGUPFT 2a Mollusca first half.pdf
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Gastropod Turbo weatherfordensis Comanche Peak Formation
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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Gastropod Amauropsis avellana Edwards Formation
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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Gastropod Nerinea pellucida Edwards Formation
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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Gastropod Ceritella proctori Edwards Formation
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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Gastropod Turritella kerrvillensis Edwards Formation
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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Gastropod Neritina elapsensis Walnut Formation
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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From the album: Fossildude's Middle Devonian Fossils
Naticonema lineata Middle Devonian Arkona Shale Arkona/Hungry Hollow, Ontario.© 2023 Tim Jones
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From the album: Middle eocene fossils from Qatar
Rare to find whole. This one is around 7mm in length I love their luster and smoothness Midra shale formation, Qatar. Middle eocene -
I took off yesterday morning and drove to a Grayson County creek, one of my previous hunted and favorite spots. It was my first fossil hunting trip since early in the year. I haven't posted here since October of last year, and had made only a couple of trips where I didn't find much since then. And, truth be told, when I'm not hunting, I'm not browsing the forum either, hence my long absence. The multiple meniscus tears in my left knee finally became too much to allow for hiking creeks, so I stopped hunting. I finally had knee surgery May 2nd, but have not been able to kneel on that knee again until very recently. The past few weeks, I have felt like that, with a bit of extra padding, I could use my knee pads again, but with daily temperatures from 105 to 110 degrees, I have just not been willing to fossil hunt. Finally, yesterday was cooler, so off I went. Here are some in situ photos. That first photo has two teeth.
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From the album: Grayson County Creek - August 29th
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I went with the Delaware Valley Paleontological Society to a few spots in Central New York last month. Cole Hill Rd. in Hubbardsville has several outcrops on private land where the owners are willing to share with fossil hunters. We scrabbled up and down the scree - Whee- and found our fill of trilo-bits, including one Dipleura cephalon covered with druse calcite, plus oodles of brachiopods, nautiloids, straight-shelled cephalopods, gastropods of all different shapes, and bivalves. I learned a tough lesson that afternoon. Always wrap your specimens as you go. Not only will they keep from breaking, but they are easier to find when your bucket tips and tumbles down the hillside across countless tons of scree There were lots of pained faces around me as I hunted down the things I'd already found.. It took me half an hour to recover everything I could, but the best ones managed to make it home. Dilpeura trilobite cephalon Another trilobite cephalon, found by someone else in the group. This one is covered in sparkling calcite. Crinoid holdfast? with Ptomatis rudis gastropod unknown, probably nautiloid Cornellites fasculata bivalve Palaeozygopleura sp. misc. unknown brachiopods If anyone has any ideas, I'd like to hear them. This spine-shaped object is about 6 inches long. I'd discount it as variations in the rock color, but the left end is curved outward from the matrix. Worm trace fossil. They made carpets of these on the sea floor.
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I found this gastropod in a stream in Erie. co NY. It is roughly 1 mm tall and 3 mm across. Finding resources online has proven tricky. I'm leaning towards Euryzone or Glyptotomaria but would love an opinion from someone familiar with this formation.
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Platyceras spirale gastropod internal molds
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From the album: Fossildude's Lower Devonian Fossils
Platyceras spirale - gastropod internal molds. Lower Devonian, Glenerie Limestone Formation Tri-States Group 9w road cut near Saugerties, NY.© 2023 Tim Jones
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Joining the Scholarly Ranks
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"Feelin' Groovy" today! I'm a self-taught and well-mentored paleontologist. I've been volunteering at my local natural history museum, identifying, cataloguing, and studying a donation of thousands of cretaceous invertebrates from a single locality along the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in the US. My first paper, peer reviewed, is now online. https://zenodo.org/record/7901663#.ZFk6xnbMJPY- 18 replies
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This is probably a long shot, but I was hoping someone could identify the gastropod in the attached image, at least to family. Embedded in silicified Miocene-age limestone (chert, Tampa Member, Arcadia Formation) from eastern Hillsborough County, Florida. Commonly found associated with charophytes, a freshwater algae. Thanks!
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From the album: Ordovician Fossils
Taxonomy Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Order: Murchisoniina Family: Hormotomidae Genus: Hormotoma Species: ? Author: Salter, 1859 Geology Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Stratigraphy Series: Upper Ordovician Stage: Katian Series: Cincinnatian Stage: Richmondian Sequence: C5 Unit: ? Provenance Collector: mtz Date: 07/23/023 Location: SW Ohio© mtz
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This tiny gastropod has me stumped. Does anyone recognize it? Thanks for any suggestions!!!! It reminds me a bit of Trochonema, but seems much different from those I have found in the past.