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Hello, my neighbor recently found this fossil oyster from digging a pond and this was found in the sediment that was dug out of the ground. I believe it is an Exogyra oyster or maybe a Gryphaea but I am unsure. It was probably found in Cretaceous sediment from the Ripley formation. Oyster is 4.5 inches in length and 3 inches wide
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I have a real mystery fossil I found in 2004 from Lumpkin, Georgia. The formaton is the Upper Cretaceous Ripley FM. US 27 was being 4 laned and quite a bit of new material was exposed in the road cuts. I think I was within a quarter mile of either side of the well known Frog Bottom Creek Upper Cretaceous fossil site. I found Exogyra costata, Flemingostrea subspatulata, Pycnodonte mutabilis, casts and molds of gastropods and pelecypods,worm burrows, etc. The oysters have well preserved shells, and the rest of the shells are mainly impressions and casts. Originally I just glanced at the mystery fossil and thought it was a impression of a pecten and set it aside. I'm now organizing my fossil collections and upon closer inspection I realized it wasnt a shell impression. Any guesses on what this is? I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime of collecting.
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Herb send me some grams of sediment from Campanian to Maastrichtian Blue Springs, Union County MS with a rich content of foraminifera. Thanks a lot Herb. It is a great pleasure to work with your material: Heterohelix Fissurina Pseudouvigerina Gaudryina find more http://www.foraminifera.eu/herb.html As I received different samples from the Upper Cretaceous of the USA I installed a clickable map with altogether 103 images so far. see http://www.foraminif...upcretgulf.html Upper Cret. samples are welcome to enlarge these section. A more or less exact locality and the formation they are from should be known. Send a PM, if you want to share a sample. The foraminifera.eu project is non-commercial driven by naturalist enthusiasm. Thus we share our findings for free and hope to help and find others, who are fascinated too by the beauty of formanifera and the story the tell about Earth Nature. Michael
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