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OK, I posted about going to the North Sulphur River on Friday (Hwy 24 bridge), and now I could use some help to identify some of these specimens. I know these are oysters, but in this first photo of 12, these shells all look different. 1) Are they all different species, or just variations of the same species? Photo #1: 2) Is this a clam, or an oyster? Photos #2a, 2b, 2c, 2d 3) Clam, oyster, other bivalve, or just a rock? Photos #3a, 3b: 4) What about the red one? Clam, oyster, bivalve, o
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This may be a very Texas-centric post. Hopefully my fellow Texans will be able to help. I am sorting out specimens from the Walnut Formation here in Austin. These particular fossils were collected from the Bee Cave Member. The Walnut is part of the Fredericksburg Group and the age is Albian (Lower Cretaceous). There are three species of the oyster Ceratostreon known from our local rocks: C. texanum (Roemer), C. weatherfordensis (Cragin) & C.hilli (Cragin). If anyone is more familiar with these and can confirm my tentative identification I would be grateful. So th
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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So, the part of creek this came from is composed of QT, QAL, and antique glass it seems. There are plenty of fossils too, when I washed out sand from this bottle the little shell was left, and I have tried to get it out but afraid of breaking it. All the recent shells in this creek are from Asian clams and mussels, from what I can tell this looks more like oyster shape. Got the best pictures possible through the pitted glass, so could this be a fossil?
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Sea urchin and other Cretaceous fossils - The Netherlands
Fossilsforever posted a topic in Fossil ID
Found these fossils: one sea urchin, belemnites (mainly Belemnella (Pachybelemnella) obtusa (Schulz, 1979) and/or sumensis and Belemnitella cf. minor II (Christensen, 1995) and one oyster (Pycnodonte vesicularis (Lamarck, 1806). Could anyone help me to determine the sea urchin? I think Hemiaster aquisgranensis (Schlüter, 1899)? Found in the ground around the Gulpen Formation (Cretaceous, late late Campanian, early Maastrichtian).- 6 replies
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