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So I split a slab at home and this showed up. Unfortunately compressed and a bit splintered, but negative and positive. Found in Helmsdale, Scotland. Jurassic marine sediment. It looks like a claw, but I also saw see hybodont claspers and squid hooks with this shape. Any ideas?
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Oxford clay, Peterborough Member, Jurassic, Callovian, Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire I collected this a few years ago, and I'm unclear whether it's a large cephalopod hook, or part of a fish, or something else entirely. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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Is anyone aware of any Cretaceous birds with hookbills? Specifically like parrots, not hawks.
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Penniretopora grandis AKA Glauconome Grandis - Carbonifirous Bryozoa
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From the album: Irish Coral algae and Bryozoan
Updated not ichthyorachis newenhami but Penniretopora grandis aka Glauconome GRANDIS found at Hook head Lighthouse Co Wexford Ireland - Carbonifirous Bryozoa. Glauconome GRANDIS. M'Coy. (PL XXVIII. fig. 3). Sp. Ch.—Stem less than twice the thickness of the lateral branches; lateral branches rather more than the width of the midrib apart, obscure ; lateral branches carinate, and bearing two alternating rows of very small, round, prominent pores, which indent the margin slightly ; the stem is obscurely carinate, and has usually two rows of small, round, prominent pores, which do not