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Hi, i've found plant fossils on a Carboniferous site in the Aspe valley, near Etsaut. I thought those could be sigillariae. What do you think ? Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4, here i think i have some calamites, my question is more about what is seen at the upper left corner, calamites too ?
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Hi everybody. This year i decided to try new sites to find trilobites. I firstly decided to try a site in the Pyrénées, maybe those who love cyclism and the Tour de France will have heard about the Col d'Aspin and Col du Tourmalet. At the Col d'Aspin, altitude 1489 meters, the landscape is fantastic, green with great trees. The landscape is fantastic, but the trilos didn't show up. Maybe the next time will i be more successful. The only fossil i found is that tiny item, less than a centimeter at the widest. So we decided to head up here, at the observatory of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre : At the foot of that Pic lies the ski station of La Mongie and, above the station, the Col du Tourmalet. There was no fossil to find here, only little cristallizations And an unexpected herd of Llamas The point of view is great
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Hi, today i went to my favourite trilobite site in my favourite mountains. When i arrived that morning, i discovered under my feet a nice white sea of clouds, making the peaks looking like islands on a sugar sea. The weather was bright and hot Fossils were at the rendez-vous : corals and brachiopods, but also, for the first time, pyrite : And, of course, trilobites
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Hi, today i went to my favourite trilobite site in my favourite mountains. When i arrived that morning, i discovered under my feet a nice white sea of clouds, making the peaks looking like islands on a sugar sea. The weather was bright and hot Fossils were at the rendez-vous : corals and brachiopods, but also, for the first time, pyrite :
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Dear TFF-members, Can anyone help me identify the fossils in the photographs below? I have trouble identifying the concentric patterns that are visible on these (apparently hollow?) shell-like fragments. They were found in the Pyrenees, Spain. The formation in which they were found is Mesozoic in age, most likely Jurassic. Note these are outcrop photographs, so I cannot make additional images to aid identification, unfortunately. Thanks for any feedback you may be able to provide. Kind regards, Tim
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Hi, From time to time I found in Upper Campanian strata of SE Pyrenees some big steinkerns looking much like the American "Deer heart clams". So, my initial guesses are genus Cucullaea/Pholadomya/Arca, especially Cucullaea/Pholadomya royana, but my knowledge of bivalves other than rudists is very limited. Can anybody help? @Ludwigia @fifbrindacier Size of the biggest are 92 x 80 x 68 mm Center one is the best preserved (75 x 67 x 53 mm) : is Finally a different, smaller, specimen from same area and strata. I have no guess about it:
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First described by Dr. Sebastián Calzada (Batalleria nº 5. Barcelona, December 1995) Named after Lluís Viladrich, amateur paleontologist (1957-2006)
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First described as Terebratella lujani by Luis Mariano Vidal in 1921. In 1984 Dr. Sebastian Calzada revised and created the new genus Ortholina: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/39118241_ORTHOLINA_n_gen_Brachiopoda_Cancellothryridacea_Cretacico_sup_Pirineos The genus was accepted in the Treatise in 2006.
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I found those spherical, almost shapeless (or vaguely champignon-like) pieces in an SE Pyrenees Upper Campanian site with rudists, corals, ostreids and brachs. Could They be Siphonia sponges? A broken part of the last one
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Hi, Recently I found this quite complete (both valves) oyster shell in an Upper Campanian to Lower Maastrichtian strata in SE of Pyrenees. My guess is Amphidonte pyrenaicum, a widespread species in the Tethys at this epoch. Supposing my guess is correct, problem is that I find that species named as (from older to newer papers): Exogyra pyrenaica, Ceratostreon pyrenaicum, Amphidonte pyrenaicum, Amphidonte (Amphidonte) pyrenaicum, and Amphidonte (Amphidonte) pyrenaica. So, I understand that former Exogyra genus has been splitted, Anyone knows of a paper about this issue? Thanks
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Hi, Some weeks ago, I found those spatangoid echinoids in my usual Upper campanian/Lower Maastrichtian hunting zone of SE of Pyrenees: I think they fit well with Diplodetus brevistella, as shown in http://www.echinologia.com/galeries/micrasteridae/index.html#diplodetus But, I found no other references of Diplodetus in the Pyrenees, and hardly in distant zones of Spain, which makes me doubt (Diplodetus is a genus mostly found in Northern Europe)
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Hi, I found this crushed echinoid in an Upper Campanian/Lower Maastrichtian stage of the Pyrenees. "Not much of a piece", I tought (likely a Micropsis or a Phymosomatoid). But I wonder if this can be its crushed Aristotle's lantern: Close-up: The other side:
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Initially named Rhynchonella sardanyolae by Josep Ramon Bataller, revised by Dr. Sebastián Calzada as Viarhynchia n.gen.cerdanyolae in this paper. (In Spanish) ID of this specimen confirmed by Dr. Calzada Genus named in honor of Dr. Lluis Via Specific name toponimical: municipality of Sant Julià de Cerdanyola
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Hi all, Some weeks ago, I found a site pretty rich in brachipods from the Late Pliensbachian/Early Toarcian in my area (Pedraforca Zone, SE Pyrennes) So, I made a parenthesis in my Upper Cretaceous usual issues, for a change, and I have been picking & preparing them last weeks. This site is very well studied in this paper (in French), and in fossilworks. I probably i found all the species mentioned from the site: Telothyris pyrenaica Telothyris jauberti Quadratirhynchia vasconcellosi Soaresirhynchia sp. Soaresirhynchia (Alméras, 1994) (former Stolmorhynchia) is a genus of little brachiopods first described by Alméras in a study about Portugueses Toarcian specimens, but are common in all the Iberian-Pyrenean Toarcian basin, from Portugal to South France. Unfortunately, they show great morphology diversity, and I must confess the I am not be able to distinguish one specie from another (S.bouchardi, S.flamandi, S.rustica). Maybe @ricardo could help. These are some examples: Homoeorhynchia batalleri And finally, the only Liospireferina falloti I found, though in poor condition:
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Hi, I have found this piece in a well-known jurassic site where brachs abound (Late Pliensbachian/early Toarcian, Tenuicostatum biozone, Iberian-Pyrennes basin) My guess is genus Pleuromya. At species level, Pleuromya rotundata is mentioned in the zone, but I find nothing about it (I fear of an invalid or junior species). It looks like Pleuromya uniformis, of whitch @Ludwigia and @nala have posted some pictures.
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I found yesterday this -I guess- pieces of crinoid columnals in a Lias (Hettangian) strata. In my area -Pedraforca zone, SE of Pyrenees- Jurassic sites and crinoids are rare (most sites are Upper Cretaceous), so I know very little about them. Tne only crinoid mentioned for the area and period is Pentacrinites. Can you confirm/refute my guess? Thanks.
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Last January 12, I found some Exogyra sp. oysters in a limestone Late Campanian / Early Maastrichtian strata (SE Pyrenees, Catalonia, Spain), who turned to show abundant beekite rings. I owe to @abyssunder my knowledge of this mineral phenomenon, which, in my area,occurs mainly over laminar-type shells like oysters' (It can occur on other fossils, though). Have you fossils with beekite rings ?
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From the album: Campanian/Maastrichtian echinoids from SE Pyrenees
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From the album: Campanian/Maastrichtian echinoids from SE Pyrenees
Peristome D-shaped with the opening facing forward; with narrow rim. Labrum slifhtly projecting -
From the album: Campanian/Maastrichtian echinoids from SE Pyrenees
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From the album: Campanian/Maastrichtian echinoids from SE Pyrenees
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From the album: Campanian/Maastrichtian echinoids from SE Pyrenees
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From the album: Campanian/Maastrichtian echinoids from SE Pyrenees
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From the album: Campanian/Maastrichtian echinoids from SE Pyrenees
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From the album: Campanian/Maastrichtian echinoids from SE Pyrenees
Oral wiew
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