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I found this one ages ago when i was a kid. I didn't even realize it was a fossil until i picked it up years later and saw that the "dirt" on the inside was solid rock with small shell pieces. Seems relatively recent if anything. Don't know exactly where it came from.
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From the album Northern's inverts
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Location: SE Portage County, Central Wisconsin, USA. Geology: South Western advance of Green Bay Glacial Lobe. Former Glacial Lake Oshkosh. Niagara Escarpment Debris. My land. Ordovician onward. Is this a Straparollous? Holopea pyrene? Left some slightly blurry photos in to show cm size. The part in question is about .4 cm deep by 1.5 cm wide. There is also what might be a bivalve to the right of it, and maybe, chain coral. Dunno about what is shown on reverse. Looking for potential ID on all and anything else someone might see. Wondering if I should give this a toilet bowl cleaner (diluted) bath? The “snail” appears to be a quartz replacement. I did initial cleaning in Biz detergent for about 24 hours, repeatedly and several days in Oxyclean. Brushed after each soak with polyester bristle brush. Did not want to destroy the crystals above specimens, so avoided wire brush. Please let me know what you think. I also want to be sure I am using correct tags here. Since my land contains Ordovician onward period, should I just list Ordovician as the period? Also, how many tags are appropriate? Should they just be location found and potential period, or should they contain generic terms such as snail? If anyone else here is using an IPhone SE for photos and knows some ways to set it, I would be appreciative. I have been unable to figure out how to change the settings for photographing specimens. The camera has a mind of it’s own, and focuses on whatever it wants, even though I am doing everything that my provider told me to do to change the settings for macro. She said phone is capable of it, but required my digging into the depths, which I did. When I transfer photos from phone to computer they come up at 72 DPI. I am using Photoshop elements to change resolution and size, which usually causes photos to be blurry. Upon transfer, I have photos that are about 40 Meg. Once I adjust the size, they are down to less than 2 Meg. Then adjust focus and color cast to be as realistic as possible. I have figured out the best time of day for taking photos with my portable photo tent, LED light and natural light through patio doors. Also made a stable phone holder to help prevent blurry photos. Thinking there has to be an easier way, as each photo I post takes about 5-10 minutes total. Sorry, obsessive compulsive newbie here, lol. Thanks for looking and any comments appreciated. If my ID is off, no problem. top 3 3-16-4 3-16-3 3-16-2 3-16-2 3-16-1 3-16-8 3-16-9 3-16-10 3-16-12 3-26-6 shell side1 Fernwood Acres, on Flickr side 2 snail 1c Thank you.
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Hello all, I am trying to identify various fossils from the Cretaceous Glen Rose Formation around Spring Branch, Texas. Could anyone verify my identifications... The first is gastropod molds which I assumed to be either a Turritella or Cerithium species. The second I named Nerinea texana. The third is an ornamented urchin indicative of the Glen Rose formation called Salenia texana. Finally the curly fossils I am unsure if those are gastropods? And the final fossil is a clam of sorts with polychaete worms growing on it. Any idea what this clam may be?
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Hello from Cyprus, this one I found near the old limestone quarry in moni area, again the heavy rain , when the mud sliding settled, it exposed a piece of it. 3m under the usual surface It is quite big and very well preserved. In the same wall I found also another kind of gastropod, corals, 4 kinds of bivalves. I will post on other threads soon. That wall consisted of beige/white earth and grey hardened sand like parts, still needed metal needle tool to scrap it off, of some specimens. Also most specimens are whiter that what I am used to find. Which i think it could be fossils, yet younger ones, like 80-100k years old?
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Hello plz share your thoughts on this one It is a gift from a friend, who doesn't remember where exactly he found it, however he thinks it was Akamas Peninsula in Cyprus.
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Unfortunately I don’t have much useful detail to share with you here. I found this in Illinois at the bottom of a bridge filled with slabs of rock blasted from God-knows-what quarry. It other slabs like it contained fragments of brachiopod shells and calymene trilobites. It is about 4 1/2cm in diameter. My best guess was a jellyfish or something similar; a geologist whom I showed it to agreed, but honestly neither of us were at all confident in our assessment. Thoughts?
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Hello there! I received a very nice birthday gift from my rock-loving colleague - a big gastropod shell from Manzanilla de Cuba! I'm not sure if it's a fossil or recent shell, but it's pretty heavy (306.72 grams, to be exact), and I was hoping to get some answers as to its identify from you, my forum friends. Please see pictures below: Thanks for your help! Monica I think @MikeR is a shell specialist... And I know that @Max-fossils is a fan of shells, too...
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I've only recently developed an interest in fossils and have been out hunting them for the past 6 months. I appreciate the feedback. When I found this, I kept looking at it with a magnifying glass trying to figure out if it had a Home and Hearth stamp on the bottom. But the bottom has small fossils in it.
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Some photos of my fossils, it comes from the Middle Lutetian Yvelines Bassin Parisien - France 1 - Pyrasus angulatus 59mm 2 - Typhis tubifer 38mm 3- Cryptocunus calophorus 62mm 4 - Olivella parnensis 35mm
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So I've had these two pieces for ages, but I know nothing about them. The first one is a gastropod but I can't figure out what made that crack in the shell? The second one seems like a piece of bone because its porous but I'm not sure.
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Hi my friend gave me this last year as a joke. He noticed a picture of some small Gastropods form Florida I got from @Nimravis (maybe you may know about this Ralph ) and said he had a nice little one I could have if I had the room . I said yes please . He sent it in a massive box 24inches by 12inches . When I opened it , I found a Huge Pilocene Gastropod from California . If anybody can help with an ID I would be very grateful . thanks Bobby
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Hi all, From Cris & Kyle, along with a few other awesome seashells, I got these two great conch shells. They were found somewhere in Putnam County, Florida, and are likely from the Nashua Formation (early Pleistocene). They seem to be part of the conch shells, the Strombidae family. But I really don’t know what species. Anyone know what it could be? Thanks in advance, Max
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Hi all, This great little Gastropod was given to me by Cris & Kyle from Fossil Voyages. They found it somewhere in Putnam County, Florida. They said it was likely from the Nashua Formation, which is early Pleistocene. So I’m trying to put a species name on it, but I can’t even find the family! If you could help with ID in any way (even pointing out the family that you think it might be part of would help; of course going straight to genus or species is better) I’d be more than glad to hear your thoughts! Thanks in advance! Max
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Hi all, So I got this gorgeous olive shell as a gift from Cris & Kyle from Fossil Voyages, as they knew I was a big fan of fossil seashells. Unfortunately they don’t remember where exactly they found it, but they know it was in Putnam County, Florida. They also said that it was likely from the Nashua Formation (which is early Pleistocene). So I looked around on neogeneatlas.org , but not a single shell from the Olividae family seemed to come from this formation. I then checked fossilworks.org , and found some results, but googling for pictures to compare the species with was quite disappointing. In Neogene Atlas, the two genera that seemed to match the best (this is just based on the pictures, not on any data) were Oliva and Americoliva. In Fossilworks, the only database (from 5 results searching “Nashua Formation” to contain fossils from the Olividae family is: PaleoDB 79748 , with fossils from Rucks Pit Mbr of the Nashua Fm, has the following Olividae species: Oliva (Porphyria) paraporphyria, Oliva (Strephona) rucksorum, Oliva (Strephona) roseae. I would really like to put a species name on this beautiful seashell, it’s my first fossil from the Olividae family, a family that also has incredible modern representatives (yes, I like the olive shells A LOT ). Anyways I am looking forward to your feedback as to what species this fossil is! Thanks in advance, Max
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A friend of many years showed me fossils he had found on the beach in Estonia on the Bay of Finland. He asked me what they were. I had never seen anything like it from my area. I told him I would post it for him to see if anyone could ID it. I have no idea what Formation it is from, but it’s coming from the ocean. He said they’re all over the beach. Here is a group of them he collected on the beach. I’m mostly interested in the long fossils. I don’t have closer pics for the others. Side 1 Sude 2 End shot Thanks for any thoughts you may have.
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From the album MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Tylostoma tumidum Gastropod cast SITE LOCATION: Mills County, Texas, USA TIME PERIOD: Lower Cretaceous (100-145 million years ago) Data: Tylostomatidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Stromboidea, the true conchs and their allies. Genera within the family Tylostomatidae include: Tylostoma, the type genus. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Littorinimorpha (Infraorder) Family: †Tylostomatidae Genus: †Tylostoma Species: †tumidum -
From the album MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Tylostoma tumidum Gastropod cast SITE LOCATION: Mills County, Texas, USA TIME PERIOD: Lower Cretaceous (100-145 million years ago) Data: Tylostomatidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Stromboidea, the true conchs and their allies. Genera within the family Tylostomatidae include: Tylostoma, the type genus. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Littorinimorpha (Infraorder) Family: †Tylostomatidae Genus: †Tylostoma Species: †tumidum -
From the album MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Phragmolites fimbriata Gastropod SITE LOCATION: Decorah, Iowa, USA TIME PERIOD: Ordovician Period (445-485 Million Years ago) Data: Phragmolites is an extinct genus of molluscs in the family Bucaniidae, paleozoic molluscs of uncertain position possibly being either Gastropods or Monoplacophorans in the superfamily Bellerophontoidea. The family lived from the Lower Ordovician to the Devonian and have shells in which the apertural margins tend to flare. Most genera have a slit and selenizone, others some modification of this feature. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: †Bellerophontida Family: †Bucaniidae Genus: †Phragmolites Species: †fimbriata -
From the album MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Phragmolites fimbriata Gastropod SITE LOCATION: Decorah, Iowa, USA TIME PERIOD: Ordovician Period (445-485 Million Years ago) Data: Phragmolites is an extinct genus of molluscs in the family Bucaniidae, paleozoic molluscs of uncertain position possibly being either Gastropods or Monoplacophorans in the superfamily Bellerophontoidea. The family lived from the Lower Ordovician to the Devonian and have shells in which the apertural margins tend to flare. Most genera have a slit and selenizone, others some modification of this feature. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: †Bellerophontida Family: †Bucaniidae Genus: †Phragmolites Species: †fimbriata -
From the album MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Euphemites gastropod SITE LOCATION: Stephens County, Texas, USA TIME PERIOD: Pennsylvanian Period (299-323 Million Years ago) Data: Euphemites, extinct genus of gastropods (snails) abundant during the Late Carboniferous Period (between 320 and 286 million years ago) in the shallow seas that covered the midcontinental region of North America. Euphemites was a small, globular snail with a broad and arcuate (bow-shaped) aperture. Ornamentation consists of parallel ridges separated by troughs following the plane of coiling. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: †Bellerophontida Family: †Euphemitidae Genus: †Euphemites -
From the album MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Strombus alatus Gastropod fossil Caloosahatchee Formation, Sarasota, Florida, USA TIME PERIOD: Pliocene Era (5.333 million to 2.58 million years) Strombus alatus, common name the "Florida fighting conch" is a species of medium-sized warm-water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. The shell can be as large as 112 millimetres (4.4 in). Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Littorinimorpha Family: Strombidae Genus: Strombus Species: alatus -
From the album MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Gastropod Fossils Boujdour, Western Sahara, Morocco Cretacious Period - 100 million years old The Gastropoda or gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large taxonomic class within the phylum Mollusca. The class Gastropoda includes snails and slugs of all kinds and all sizes from microscopic to Achatina achatina, the largest known land gastropod. There are many thousands of species of sea snails and sea slugs, as well as freshwater snails, freshwater limpets, land snails and land slugs. The class Gastropoda contains a vast total of named species, second only to the insects in overall number. The fossil history of this class goes back to the Late Cambrian. There are 611 families of gastropods known, of which 202 are extinct and appear only in the fossil record. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Murchisoniina Family: Phanerotrematidae -
From the album MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Gastropod - Euomphalus planidorsatus Chesterian Zone of the Bangor Limestone Formation in northern Alabama Mississippian Period (ca 325,000,000 years old) Euomphalus is a genus of fossil marine gastropods known to have lived from the Silurian to the Middle Permian. Euomphalus is characterized by a closely coiled shell with a depressed to slightly elevated spire and a channel-bearing angulation (a selenizone) on the upper surface of the whorls. The lower surface of the whorls is rounded to angular. Amphiscapha, Philoxene, and Straparollus are among similar related genera. Serpulospira, also related, differs in having a broadly open spiral in the adult form. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Euomphaloidea Family: Euomphalidae Genus: †Euomphalus Species: †planidorsatus -
From the album MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Gastropod - Euomphalus planidorsatus Chesterian Zone of the Bangor Limestone Formation in northern Alabama Mississippian Period (ca 325,000,000 years old) Euomphalus is a genus of fossil marine gastropods known to have lived from the Silurian to the Middle Permian. Euomphalus is characterized by a closely coiled shell with a depressed to slightly elevated spire and a channel-bearing angulation (a selenizone) on the upper surface of the whorls. The lower surface of the whorls is rounded to angular. Amphiscapha, Philoxene, and Straparollus are among similar related genera. Serpulospira, also related, differs in having a broadly open spiral in the adult form. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Euomphaloidea Family: Euomphalidae Genus: †Euomphalus Species: †planidorsatus
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