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Hello everyone, I found this gastropod along the Sanibel Causeway in Ft. Myers, FL. They were in a pile of shells being used for landscaping so I presume that the sediments came from a nearby quarry of ?Pleistocene age, possibly the Caloosahatchee Fm. Can someone help me verify and identify this fossil? Family Turridae? Thank you!
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This a Permian Gastropod I found in County Durham, at Ford Quarry. I have been using this guide http://www.limestonelandscapes.info/media/11163/Zechstein-Reef-Fossils-and-their-palaeoecology-WEB/pdf/ZechsteinReefFossilsWEB.pdf to try to determine its genus, if its possible. There are a few other disarticulated remains if this helps. Does anyone here know enough about Molluscs to help? This is counted as Locality 2 in the guide, there are three possible genus, Yunnania, Naticopsis and Mourlonia. The gastropod is about 4cm in diameter at its widest point.
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Hello everyone, I found these gastropods along the Sanibel Causeway in Ft. Myers, FL. They were in a pile of shells being used for landscaping so I presume that the sediments came from a nearby quarry of ?Pleistocene age, possibly the Caloosahatchee Fm. Can someone help me verify and identify this fossil? Family Muricidae? Thank you!
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Hello, I found these gastropods along the Sanibel Causeway in Ft. Myers, FL. They were in a pile of shells being used for landscaping so I presume that the sediments came from a nearby quarry of ?Pleistocene age, possibly the Caloosahatchee Fm. Can someone help me verify and identify this fossil? I know its Conus, can we id the species? Ihave read that there are thousands of species, so it might not be possible. Thank you!
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Hello, I found this gastropod along the Sanibel Causeway in Ft. Myers, FL. They were in a pile of shells being used for landscaping so I presume that the sediments came from a nearby quarry of ?Pleistocene age. Can someone help me verify and identify this fossil? Family Muricidae? More challenges to come in future posts!Thank you!
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Hello all, I need some help identifying this gastropod. It is from the Babcock Ranch northeast of Cape Coral and Ft. Myers. We collected these fine specimens from some of the "spoils" near the golf course. It appears to be a gastropod, but that is as far as I can go with the identification. Does anyone have any idea what the age and formation would be at this former quarry site? Most of my references would say "undifferentiated Pilo-Pleistocene deposits. Attached is a photo and a kmz link to the site. Thank you in advance! Greg Kruse Casper, WY Babcock Ranch.kmz
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Hello, I found this gastropod along the Sanibel Causeway in Ft. Myers, FL. They were in a pile of shells being used for landscaping so I presume that the sediments came from a nearby quarry of ?Pleistocen age. . I have consulted the Florida Museum's database and found a similar species: http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/ip/ (specimen #100196) VERMICULARIA SPIRATA under the Family Turritellidae. Can someone help me verify and identify this fossil? Thank you!
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These are some unidentified mollusk fossils I collected among the dredge spoils along the Savannah River in Savannah, Georgia a couple years back. Because of the mixed nature of the dredge sediments exact aging isn't possible but they represent Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene sediments. Most of the stuff from this site has been identified and @MikeR's resources have been a great help for some other ones but I'd like some help on these. # 1, 2, and 3. Some Muricid? I'm not really sure where to start to try and narrow it down. #4 #5 Crepidula sp.?
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From the album: Missouri Ammonoids, Nautiloids and Gastropods
Gastropod fossil, (originally misidentified as an ammonite), Gave it to a friend a year ago so I was unable to measure it properly -
Found this ammonite or gastropod this afternoon between Capon Bridge and Wardensville. The formation is supposed to be Oriskany Sandstone, but it looked like siltstone not sandstone. Is this an ammonite or a gastropod? It seems too big to be a gastropod to me, but wanted to check, as I've never found an ammonite in the area before. Thanks! Matt
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Hello! While living in Hawaii, I found these, I really do not know much about them, they are heavy and solid, any ideas on what they are? They were found on beach in sand like this, round and separate from a large rock, one is double sided
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From the album: 2020, a year in review - 3 : cephalopods & gastropods
Gastropod from Saint-Laon (France) - Callovian - collected in october 2020 -
From the album: 2020, a year in review - 3 : cephalopods & gastropods
Gastropod from Saint-Laon (France) - Callovian - collected in october 2020 -
From the album: 2020, a year in review - 3 : cephalopods & gastropods
Gastropod from Saint-Laon (France) - Callovian - collected in october 2020 -
From the album: 2020, a year in review - 3 : cephalopods & gastropods
Gastropod from Saint-Laon (France) - Callovian - collected in october 2020 -
I bought this cleonaceras ammonite a while ago. It’s 110 Million years old from Madagascar. It said it was filled with mud and when I was looking at it I saw many small fossils, some of these may be unidentifiable or even not fossils but I know some are and want to see if you guys can help narrow it down. Since they have been polished the inclusions on one side are not on the other here’s the ammonite, 6.9 inches the longest way 1. Gastropod? 2. Shell fragment? 3. Shell fragment? 4. Gastropod? 5. Gastropod? 6. I know this ones a gastropod, anything else? 7. Shell fragment? 8. No clue, probably not a fossil 9. Tiny gastropod?
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Hi everyone! I found this piece of limestone while hiking near Lost Creek in Austin, Texas. There are two distinctive fossils lodged in the rock. It also looks the large indentation on the right portion of the rock surface may be from the same animal? I believe they are gastropods, but I couldn't find any photos of species that looked liked these with the distinctive stripes running across each section of the shells.
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Hi All, I've been spending some time with family in Southern Illinois, in Madison County. In between eating too much for the holidays I've been exploring around the farm and the creeks for arrowheads and anything else I can find...while exploring one creek bed near some rather large cliffs I found what I am guessing is a fossilized shell, some kind of sea snail/whelk/conch. I don't know if this was an unwanted hermit crab someone tossed away, or a part of a shell garden that made it's way in there, or a legitimate fossilized shell. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, D
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My youngest needed to make some measurments at my other property so I decided to go with him. I needed to find a certain fossil in my fossil shed. Didn't find it. I did find some other rather interesting stuff though. I call this stuff 'chicken scratch'. This is actually a nice one. Some get so messy its hard to tell what is what. This is actually a common gastropod but a very rare gastropod at the same time. We locals called them 'moonines'. Here you can see that it was murdered by another gastropod!!! Here you can see how the operculum is still in place. This is what makes this snail rare. I used to find hundreds of these but only this one I found with the trap door. I was looking for my german box of fossils but could only find this. Now im wondering where my german box is? A close up of brittle star slab Another close up but a different area. Ive also found another complete one that is not uncovered yet.
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Picked this up yesterday in Galveston Bay dredge spoils. Beaumont formation, late Pleistocene age. I typically resist the urge to being home any more shells but this one it unlike any I've seen over the years from this site or others I've visited alone the upper Texas Gulf Coast. I've not been able to identify it and hoping someone can point me in the right direction. The only shells of this form listed in online references for the Texas coast are very small around 1" or so in comparison to the 5-6" length of this one if it were complete. Darrow
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Hi all! Today I'd like to introduce you to another place to hunt for small Oxfordian fossils, a quarry by the village of Timonino, located to the east of Moscow. The finds and hunting method are pretty much the same as in the previous site. Basically, surface collecting small Oxfordian fossils, usually gastropods, is a distinct sort of fossil hunting in the Moscow region. To the east of the city lies a sort of "Oxfordian belt" with similar geologic setting, finds and hunting conditions. Here's a map of the Oxfordian sites in the region. The quarries in operation are marked in blue, they usually extract older layers, thus removing Oxfordian clay and stacking it in spoil piles. Fossils can then be collected from the piles' surface. Due to specific conditions, ammonites are not preserved at all, but bivalves and gastropods retain a very good quality. People usually search for the latter. Most such quarries are located around the city of Kolomna, including Peski quarry I've already presented. Shchyolkovo quarry (in brown) is out of operation and completely flooded, but there are a couple of tiny clay patches with mostly belemnites. A group of sites marked in orange are located on the Moskva river bank and accessible only in winter (focus of the Frozen fossils topic), the hunting season is about to resume. They are also Oxfordian with the same set of gastropods, but also well-preserved ammonites everybody looks for. Timonino quarry is an isolated site with conditions similar to Kolomna's. Unlike the latter, it strangely extracts white Bathonian clay instead of limestone. The quarry came in operation just a few years ago and ultimately became popular among fossil collectors. Going forward I can say its reputation is greatly exaggerated.
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Found these the other day at Stratford Hall, Virginia. Any idea if these are Turritella or another species?
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I had to make a trip to the "big" city of Rochester, Mn today. As I drove by a new building site that exposed some Decorah Shale, I had to make a stop. The Decorah Shale is an impervious layer that keeps pollution from seeping into deeper rock layers and contaminating our ground water. Obviously, building permits are being obtained without adherence to the zoning which prevents interuption of this great geologic feature! I will drink my own water but collect fossils from these ill conceived sites. While visiting such a site, I discovered this tiny gastropod that I can not identify.
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From the album: Aurora/Lee Creek Mine Micro Matrix
Tiny marine gastropod from the Pliocene/Pleistocene micro matrix of the Nutrien Aurora/Lee Creek Phosphate Mine in Auora, North Carolina -
From the album: Aurora/Lee Creek Mine Micro Matrix
Ringicula semistriata Nutiren Aurora/Lee Creek Phosphte Mine Aurora, North Carolina
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