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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).
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From the album: Late Jurassic bivalves of European Russia
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Found this on my land I live in North Texas, Dallas Texas specifically. Not familiar with fossil but would like to know any information anyone has on this. It’s about 4 inches in length 2.5 inches wide. It has some other impressions on it which I zoomed in on one of the pictures.
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From the album: C&D Canal Micro Fossils
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I found this little oyster hiding in a long forgotten box of fossils from the Pawpaw formation at Lake Texoma and can't identify it. It has an odd beak. I don't know if the wrinkle at the ventral margin is normal or diagnostic. Left valve. extreior view (millimeter scale) interior view dorsal view anterior view oblique view close-up of oblique view extreme close-up of exterior (photo shows 2mm of surface)
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Taking my son for a nature hike yesterday morning, trying to inspire a love for the outdoors onto him. We ID everything we find, but this is our first fossil! Found this deep in the woods in millstone, Monmouth county. Spoke to two paleontologists, one said pycnodonte and the other said Ostrea. Help! I don’t know anything about fossils.
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This is a very rare find at this site. Although two members of the genus have been reported along the C and D Canal, this is the only one I've found at Reedy Point in 17 years of collecting there! PLEASE NOTE: It is possible that this was carried there during frequent human activity - perhaps in a tire tread from a vehicle that came from another site along the canal. This specimen has a 4mm pearl bud near the hinge on the interior side of the valve. Because there are more than one species of Pteria at the canal and this shell is heavily worn, I am refraining from narrowing it down to a species. Of the two reported, only one really resembles it. P. petrosa (Conrad) has strong, concentric growth rings, but no costae. P. laripes (Morton) has strong costae and fine growth lines, so is probably a match.
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Does anyone know the Genus/Species of these common oysters from Post Oak Creek, Sherman, Texas.
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Hello, all! As my first submission for identification, let me present to you the first fossil(?) I collected from the field. I feel I should apologize for several things right now: I have very little functional knowledge of local geography, especially as it relates to this specimen. In truth, I wasn't hunting for fossils when I found it; I was fishing for catfish. Since childhood, my favorite fishing spot has been at the junction of a local creek (Indian Creek, if anyone happens to know the geography of South-West Iowa) and the Missouri River. Good spot for big catfish, and plenty of limestone boulders to brace against while fighting them. It's easily accessible via bicycle trails. In July of 2018, I had hooked a sizeable fish when he snapped my line around a snag. Enraged (that was my dinner swimming away, after all), I hurled an apple-sized rock at one of the limestone boulders, hard enough to split it along a fracture line. Intending to release more frustration by reducing it to gravel, I yanked the crack open. Inside the fault, I saw this perfect-looking shell. I hadn't really thought it was possible to collect fossils locally, let alone find one with color. So, I gently pried it off the limestone matrix with the blade of my Leatherman, tucked it in my tackle box, and peddled home. When I got home, a cursory Google search of local fossil assemblages led me to believe I may have found either a brachiopod or some kind of oyster-like bivalve. Recognizing that the thin shell was brittle, I immediately applied a coat of 50/50 cyanoacrylate glue and clear nail polish (a mixture I now favor for finishing). In summary: The specimen itself measures roughly 36 mm wide by 24 mm deep. It is concave, with a deep fold to the midline. Slightly pinkish-brown with white speckles, which may be early (and incomplete) calcification. It was found at GPS coordinates 41.1890, -95.8741, encased in a limestone boulder. The boulder itself may have been deposited by the action of the nearby Missouri River, or washed out of the surrounding geography. Any conjectural identification is welcome and appreciated.
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Isognomon donated to Delaware Museum of Natural History
I_gotta_rock posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
In 2008, I found one of the prizes of my collection amongst a pile of sand and broken bits at Calvert Cliffs. I knew from seeing museum specimens of Isognomon maxillata that even with the tip broken off, this was a great find. After admiring it on my shelf every day since, I decided to share it. Today it has a new home at the Delaware Museum of Natural History, which did not have any of this species or much of anything from that region amongst its 2,000,000+ mollusk specimens. Along with the Isognomon, I donated a Chesapectin nefrens shell with a number of pearl buds on the inside and a Tongue shell (Glossus santamaria) from the same location. The curator was happy to tell me that after 40 years of displaying modern sea shells and fossils of dinosaurs, they are finally putting together an exhibit of fossilized sea shells. Who knows, maybe one or more of these will end up on public view?
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From the album: C&D Canal Micro Fossils
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From the album: C&D Canal Micro Fossils
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From the album: C&D Canal Micro Fossils
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From the album: C&D Canal Micro Fossils
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Hi, gang. Some of you may remember the Southern Morocco trip I took in February. One of the places visited was quite near to me, about 70 km, lovely Swiss style mountain town called Ifrane where I found some Middle Jurassic brachiopods and echinoids. See http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/93193-ifrane-middle-atlas-morocco/&tab=comments#comment-1026671 A friend offered to drive me up there for the day so off we went I decided to check some outcrops on the other side of the road this time so went and had a peek.Sorry, no photos this time as wifey didn't come, she was ironing her money and she has the only camera phone. The first outcrop is an oyster bed crammed with enormous oysters. This is incredibly hard and couldn't be broken safely. (safely as in getting the fossils out in one piece, not my own personal well-being). But I was lucky enough to find this monster just lying a the base: Scale in inches it would seem. I think I can clean it up a bit. Eventually. After i'd dragged my broken carcass a few hundred whatevers further on, the limestone became yellower, softer but still pretty hard. Lots of broken shell material, a couple of ammonite bits, but the only salvageable items were these couple of rather nice gastropods; again, they should clean up a bit better: Oh, the scale's in centimetres this time. I felt like a change. You know, it's amazing how often I've given up on a days collecting and then, on the way back to the car, you find something just in your path that makes the trip. Here was mine this time : Forgot the scale altogether. Sigh. Maybe four or five centmetres diameter. Harpoceras, perhaps? It has a very pronounced keel. @Ludwigia Roger? I'll be able to prep this pretty well in 2046 when i get to my Jurassic stuff. Nothing spectacular, but it's always so nice to be out in the field collecting. Life's Good. Adam.
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Mid-Late Cretaceous Oyster- Brewster County, TX! Help Identifying?
salmonsnail posted a topic in Fossil ID
Well Hello, Folks! This is my first post on The Fossil Forum. With my first ever fossil find! Just for some background, I was hiking in the badlands on a private property (with permission, friend of a friend), and I stumbled up a crusted-dirt hill when I knocked loose this black thing that went tumbling down the side of the hill behind me. It didn't look like a rock and I had to take a look. No kidding. An oyster fossil. I've never found a fossil before and I wasn't even looking for them! I was on top of the world. I took it to the land owner and asked if he wanted it. He said he's found plenty of clams and oysters before and that I could keep it. A little history about the area. Brewster County in West Texas (the Big Bend Region) was under water in an inland sea called the Western Interior Seaway during the mid-late Cretaceous period. This is the only time the area was under water and is a part of Big Bend prehistoric history, which I have a pretty good grasp on. My question is, can anyone identify what species of oyster this is? Or even the type of oyster? (I'm a geographer, I don't know my oysters...) Or can anyone point me in the right direction in terms of maybe a webpage or book I can find that would help me identify this? I'm so excited to share this on this forum and I can't wait to learn more from you folks. Cheers, Emma
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These were found along the Guadeloupe River in Texas. I picked up about six of them. Some help in identifying them would be appreciated.
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Probably just another rock but sure has the shape of an oyster, in my opinion. Thought I’d ask....thanks for your help.
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Does anyone know if it’s possible for the meat; the edible part, of an oyster to be fossilised?
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What type of mollusk is this? Oyster? Bivalve?Internal mold. Silurian Thanks for any help.
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