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Let us see your Cretaceous Calcified Splendors
masonboro37 posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
During my organization and cleanup process in my never ending abyss of the fossil garage, I came across these gorgeous calcified fossils which are both cretaceous. I kind of misplaced them for a little while... I found them both at a sand pit in Coastal North Carolina a few years ago. So, show us your splendid, dandy and awesome calcified cretaceous fossils PLEASE! I shall start first on this cool lil' prospect to see what may be shared by other members. Libby First pic is a Flemingostrea subspatulata, Cretaceous oyster. Pee Dee Formation, North Carolina. Second pic is a Hardouinia kellumi, Cretaceous echinoid. Pee Dee Formation, North Carolina.
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Hi everyone, I found this fossilized seashell in Tarpon, Florida on a fossilized shell trail. Original formation unknown. It looks almost complete and has great ornamentation and detail. It has 2 boreholes that penetrated just the surface of the shell. It is approximately 1 3/4" x 1 3/4". Can you ID it? Many thanks in advance.
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I have found this fossil and cleand it with vinegar. I have never found a fossil like this one, can someone ID it? I saw some similar fossils from madagascar with the name "zipper oyster" if that what it is, can you tell me the scientific name and some details about it?
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Hello, These fossils were found around Grapevine Lake. I believe the one rock has oyster shells and turritella shells. I'm not an expert by any means, but are the fossils in the other rock ammonite? Any help is much appreciated! Thanks
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I need some help. This bivalve came from a river here in eastern North Carolina. Pliocene Yorktown Formation, zone 2 Rushmere member. I believe it is in the Family Pteriidae (pearl oysters) Genus Crenatula. However I cannot find anything in any literature I have or can come up with. Complete specimens are extremely rare at this site, though pieces are not uncommon. Any thoughts? @MikeR @SailingAlongToo Complete specimen top ... bottom .. another one I found complete, but broke after it got home. So I opened it to picture the hinge details .... top ... bottom ...
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I am at the Santa Rosa Gem and Mineral show and one of the vendors had this on display, labeled as an oyster. I’m not sure that’s correct and the lady said it could also be a cephalopod. Looks to me like a loosely coiled ammonite, what does everyone think?
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Greeting! I found this Pycnodonte yesterday in Monmouth County NJ (Cretaceous) with this strange growth on it (the bump). I compared it to about two dozen of my other Pycnodontes' and did not see anything similar so I was wondering if this was their version of a pearl or if it something else. As always, all help is greatly appreciated! -Frank
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Looking for some feedback on these 3 items: (I'm a total newbie...) 1. Neat looking bivalve. I hadn't seen one like that since I starting collecting and assume it is an oyster 2. Shark tooth missing the root? Just wanted to make sure it was a shark tooth and not something else 3. Looks like the root of the tooth that has broken off Sherman, Texas area
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Here's my question. Pulled an oyster up, it broke in half, the other side crumbled to dust. Very sad. But the surviving side has this sunny side up egg appearance. I've looked under a magnifying glass and don't see evidence of shell edges or anything. Is it a steinkern of the innards? I've stopped cleaning it until I know what it is. If it's a sneaky shell, I'll pop it off, otherwise I'll leave it. Any help is appreciated!
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Working on sorting my oysters, but the outside is so worn on this, and I'm so new at this, that I can't ID it by the shell and I don't know another way. Is there enough left of it for any of you? More pics coming in second post. Also, should I clean out the middle? Help much appreciated! Sw Fl, probably Plio Pleistocene.
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The person who owned my home before me left quite a rock collection around my yard. I seriously thought this was a cow patty when I first saw it. But upon closer examination it was just a weird, oyster shaped rock in a grey limestone like clay. It has shell casings around a few of the ridges and seems to have an oyster like shape. It also has small clear crystals that crust some of the ridges and crystalline matter mixed into the grey sludge clay its encased in. It weighs a lot, so I didn't think this was a fossil, but a friend who has more experience with fossils thinks its a fossil. I might upload some better pics later after I charge my camera.
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Went to Sherman, TX for some shark teeth. Found lots of shark teeth, oysters, one mammal tooth, one ptychodus tooth, and two vertebrae.Had a great trip and hope to go back. Will post some photos for Id in a little bit.
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Hi all, Found this shell in the Antwerp harbor. From the "Scaldisian" of the Pliocene, about 3 myo. I think Kattendijk Formation (can anyone confirm this?). I think it's some kind of shell within the Pycnodonte genus maybe? If so, which one? I am pretty sure that it's from the Ostreidae. Thanks in advance, Max
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My son found this in Oneonta NY and was wondering if anyone knows what kind of mussel this could be?
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Hello all, Could anyone identify these oysters by name?
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From the album: Upper-cretaceous invertebrates from SE Pyrenees
Rastellum carinatum, from Maastrichtian limestones -
From the album: Upper-cretaceous invertebrates from SE Pyrenees
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Its been a while since I've been on this forum but since my last post I have searched 100's of acres digging up the past. In 2 years my collection of petrified wood has grown to include fossilized oysters found in Pensacola and lower Alabama.
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1 years collection of Petrified Wood and Fossils from South Alabama.
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Hello from Cyprus, warm wishes for exciting finds to everyone! Here is a relatively bigger oyster than my usual finds, this one is complete and inside small crystals have formed, could be calcite not sure. Took advantage of the heavy rainfall and found it on muddy collapsing hills north of akrotiri area. I found half, and half a meter further I dug out the other half Perhaps you can better see the small crystals that formed all over inside both parts below Nearby I found also the following: found position, but i think they are not matching and this single one
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Hello, I have a lot of oyster halves, maybe 60-80 and way too many fragments, however I haven't the single clue how they would look as a whole. There seem to be 5 categories of halves: the "half mango" (usually very big and thick), "the rippled shallow plate" (usually thin, but many layers), the symmetrical ones with even left and right sides (usually half the size from the previous), the round fist like ones with curved ending, and the stretched ones. Below I'm showing one, which a) has some interesting attach-marks and b ) even tho it is a "half mango style" inside it appears to have a "rippled shallow plate, which is smaller, and does not have the same attach marks. It is also not so well preserved. Is this accidental? Are those two types the usual two valves of a bivalve? Any help is very appreciated thanks. below the most accurate look of the marks, they look and feel like a row of teeth of sorts and the inside oyster location of most of the oyster finds (in relation to the sea) its about 5km
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I found this in the Post Oak Creek near Sherman, TX today. I kind of think it looks like a modern oyster, but I found it with many, many well preserved fossil shells. How do I tell it is a fossil vs modern? It has barnacles on it. See far right and far left. You can see the muscle scar so clearly. It was found with these other fossilized shells in the creek bed.
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From the album: North Sulphur River
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From the album: Fossil Flourescence
Pycnodonte mutabilis, viewed under natural light at left and under short-wave ultraviolet light at right.© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple
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I never knew if the oyster shells on the beach were fossil or modern until I pulled this out of a block of matrix deposited by landslide into the Chesapeake Bay. This specimen was donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History. Genus changed from Parahyotissa.
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