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Moroccan Jellyfish Fossil?
Rikache posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi there! I was browsing through my favorite sellers' stores earlier today and I came across this very peculiar fossil. The fossil is said to be of an Ordovician age jellyfish (Eldonia Berbera) from Mecissi, Morocco. I'm still fairly new to collecting fossils, thoroughly researching them, and learning about paleontology more in depth, so the thought of a jellyfish fossilizing never really crossed my mind. I'm not entirely interested in purchasing this fossil; rather, I'm posting this more out of pure curiosity. I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could share their insight about this particular specimen and I'd love to learn about how such a process as the fossilization of a jellyfish could go about. I think this could be a great learning moment for me and other like myself who are still in the process of learning such things. Thanks y'all!
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From the album: Mazon creek assortment
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Is this a fossil, or not???
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Hi guys! Please assist to identify if this is a Jellyfish strobila fossil . I was expecting it to be a plant, but the shape of the disks is so different. N.1 N.2 N.3 N.4
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Just wanting to confirm that this is a jellyfish.
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Location: Mazon Creek (Illinois) I think some or all of these may be jellyfish, but I'd like to defer to others. If they are not jellyfish, what are they? The last two photos are both sides of the same pieces. There appears to be something on both sides. Thank you for your time.
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Hi everyone, its been a while since I posted here so wanted to share some of my favorite finds from the past few months. Ive mainly been hunting in the marine Blackhall Limestone at various sites across the Midland Valley of Scotland. Although there are several fossiliferous marine limestone and shale bands of similar age and depositional environment in the Midland Valley, the Blackhall seems to be by far the most productive and also tends to have the best preservation. Ive mainly been looking for chondrichthyan teeth, crinoid cups and jellyfish so I'll post these first, I have had a few nice finds of other invertebrate groups recently though so I'll get some pics of these shortly. First up, the jellyfish. This is the largest Ive found so far at 80mm across. Another larger specimen at 60mm across. An average sized one at 32mm. And one of the smallest so far at 21mm.
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Hi All, Recently I purchased some Shale from U-Dig, UT. The trilobites inside were super swell, but one of the more interesting finds was this...thing... It appears to be a circular mass, with some veins or something radiating from the center. My hopeful brain began to think it could be a jellyfish, though realistically it is highly unlikely, and I've never heard of anything like that being preserved in the shale from U-dig. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I am at an ABSOLUTE loss. Thanks, -Snag
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I headed out to Mazon Creek IL a few days ago and came back with some fair nodules. I found a big nodule(6) and used the freeze thaw method to open it, I think it might be a jellyfish but I’m unsure, as I guess it could be nothing. 1 and 2 just have irregular shapes and I believe are made of pyrite. 3,4 and 5 are nodules that did not open from freeze thaw so I broke them with a hammer, and they have some white marks but I’m not sure if they are anything at all. Help with any of these finds would be awesome, and I had quite the adventure at Mazon as it rained and was quite filled with ticks!
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Got out to one of my favourite Blackhall Limestone sites in the Midland Valley of scotland for the first time in a while last week and made a few finds I was really pleased with. Found my smallest jellyfish so far at 25mm across (I'm told examples as small as 8mm have been found), a well preserved example of a Penniretepora sp. bryozoan for this site (thanks @TqB for the ID! ) and also a couple of teeth that still need some prep. A few months back at the same site I got another nice example of a Poecilodus jonesi posterior tooth plate that I never got round to posting here so here it is too, its 12mm across.
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Hello everyone! I’m looking for any information on conulariids while showing the one I found! I found this specimen in west Michigan while fossil hunting recently. I used my microscope to get very zoomed in details of the ridges as this conulariid is very well preserved. The two very close up pictures are a 1000X while the last picture that isn’t as zoomed in is 50X, both are the same spot of the specimen. I know that these are thought to be some type of jellyfish/coral but that’s all I know of these fossils. Any more information would be really awesome, and I hope that you enjoy this find!
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Found this odd concretion possibly a jellyfish. It was at washburne state park on oregon coast. It was in the sand mostly exposed thought it was trash at first a Frisbee or piece of styrofoam. But it's definitely stone, and was a week or two after our beaches were covered in a wash of jellyfish. No room to step between them even in most spots. This was found in the sand all the way at the back of the beach near the end of the sand that then hits the dune area and cliffs. I am wondering if it is of a jellyfish, maybe one that washed back further and stuck while the rest got swept back out?
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From the album: Invertebrates
Rhizostomites admirandus Häckel, 1866 Upper Jurassic Lower Tithonian Pfalzpaint Germany Pfalzpaint is famous for its jellyfish or Scyphozoa Diameter 17cm / 7" -
From the album: Invertebrates
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Merry Christmas folks. Just wanted to share some photos of one of my favorite specimens.. It's a 3D mold of a Scyphozoa conostichus jellyfish from the Pennsylvanian period from the Nellie Bly Formation, Sand springs, Tulsa, Oklahoma. It's 5.3 x 4.5 x 4.0cm.
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Hey guys! I’ve got some items here from Mazon Creek, IL, and I need a little help IDing them. The first one looks like a jellyfish to me, but I’m no expert. The second two... honestly I don’t even know if they’re fossils at all. The last one makes me think it might be because the center of the inside is dark and glossy and looks a little like a crunches up jelly, but I really can’t say. Any thoughts?
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Hello again. I have several of these strange fossil discs. I cannot find tags for them in the boxes of minerals and fossils recently acquired. Possibly some sort of jellyfish? sea sponge? Any help with ID is of course always appreciated!
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A few items from my collection. Extra large Essexella asherae Multiple Essexella asherae Essexella asherae and worm
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On this plate is a Keichousaurus and an unknown fossil. You can see there is something at the left hand corner, does it look like a jellyfish?
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As with so many fossils from the Ediacaran, it is not certain to which phylum they belong. According to Fossilworks, Cyclomedusa belongs to Cnidaria. From Wikipedia: "Cyclomedusa was originally thought to be a jellyfish but some specimens seem to be distorted to accommodate adjacent specimens on the substrate, apparently indicating a benthic (bottom-dwelling) creature. The markings do not match the musculature pattern of modern jellyfish. The fossils have been conjectured to represent a holdfast for some stalked form — possibly an octacorallian, or something else entirely."
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Hello to all, I just ran across this site, look forward to chatting with others on finding, preserving pieces of our history. I've been collecting fossils from my local areas for over five years, and have donated many of my finds to our coal mining museum in our little town. We grew up playing on the slag piles of strip mines and deep mines and use to throw them rocks all over, little did we know what was inside those precious gems were fossils. I find numerous types of fauna and floral specimens and normally I give them to others to put in museums or historic places...Truly enjoy collecting fossils and our area is rich in these gems... I'm amazed every time I open up an fossil and be the first set of eyes on the amazing find. My bucket list is a Tully monster and someday will find one... So happy there are others that thrive on finding fossils and not just rocks...Thank you..
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think i had put this on here before but the pics were bad and it was with a group... took a few new pics and found a similar item posted way back in 2014 I think also in texas... could this be a similar item? but in perhaps poorer condition. this is the post:.....
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Hello from Spain! I just signed up! I am not an expert but I am willing to learn more about fossils. I have recently found some specimens in the Castilla-La Mancha region (Spain) that I would love to identify. I am afraid I have already checked in a local forum but these specimens may not be that common since no one was able to identify them. I hope I will be lucky in this forum, I cross my fingers! I will start by posting one ID question regarding a specimen recently found in Mota del Cuevo (Cuenca) that, according to the acedemic texts I was able to find, shoud be from the Cretaceous Period. I think it may be a jellyfish on a shell of some kind... By that way, I am sorry if my English is a bit rusty sometimes! Thank you!
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Supposed to be from the Cretaceous, found in Mota del Cuevo (Spain). I think it may be a jellyfish... on a shell... Note the soft-looking round brownish double structure on the center. Between the two structures it looks transparent white. Underneath there is a shell. On top there is a stick-structure with another round structure of a different kind I think. What is it? Thank you!
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I discovered this specimen by chance a few years before I got into fossil hunting. I was on a vacation at Oak Island, North Carolina when I found it. I am thinking it is a Jellyfish fossil.
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