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Don't know what this is. Might be a shell
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Years of collecting the strand line in Asbury Park, NJ, have revealed a lot of the rarer elements of the modern shallow marine fauna, as well as of the Cretaceous marine biota whose fossils wash up there. But this month I was astounded to come across this shell, which I believe to be a craniid brachiopod's dorsal valve. Based on its condition I can't be sure whether it's modern, subfossil, or even Cretaceous. It's matrix-free and shows signs of having been encrusted by cheilostome bryozoa. Can someone confirm or refute this ID? Can someone with expertise in the Cretaceous coastal plain comment on the likelihood of this specimen's possible Cretaceous origin? Thanks!
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A mailbox find - got this one in a swap. No locality info. Any idea what this is?
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Can someone tell me if this is a fossil clam mold? Found at a barn in East Tennessee. Unsure where it was originally found but he thought he might have found it in a river in the mountains. It measures approximately 3.5" long by 2.5" wide by 1.25 deep. The main body part is gray with some brown hints and the center band part is lighter whitish gray and also has some tiny holes at it's edges. Obviously I'm not an expert but I think it is interesting regardless. Help appreciated!
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I have this item which looks to me like a shell. It has the shape but it appears to be incased in rock. Is there any way for me to "uncover" the shell if there is one at all? How would I go about trying to discover if there is something hidden within? The pics don't show the form as much as in person but hopefully you guys see what I see!
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Being so new to the fossil world, I really don't know what I found here. It was found near all the petrified wood that we have in the area (East Texas) which are really in small pieces (a few larger logs). I have found nothing similar; just rocks of quartz and other minerals. There is a lot of clay around that lays about 3 feet deep below the sandy & loam soils here. We have found a river mussel that was perhaps eaten by a racoon but so far, no other shells have been discovered. I would love to hear what you guys thing about this discovery. It may not be a fossil at all and just a shell, I really don't know. Here are some photos of the top and the underside of this "rock". Thanks! MaryfromTexas
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Circomphalus foliaceolamellosus is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae, the venus clams.. The genus Circomphalus is known from the Miocene to the Recent periods (age range: from 15.97 to 0.0 million years ago). La formazione, per uno spessore di 100-120 m, è costituita da sabbie giallastre incoerenti o localmente cementate in genere omogenee, talora mostranti strutture da moto ondoso. La successione sabbiosa dell'Astigiano, soprattutto per le ricche associazioni fossili, fu indicata da De Rouville nel 1853 come tipo per l'istituzione del "Piano Astiano". Un tempo utilizzato con significato cronologico (Sacco, 1889-90), l’Astiano nell’accezione sostitutiva "facies astiana" permane nella letteratura relativa al Pliocene sudeuropeo con riferimento a sedimenti sabbiosi deposti in ambienti marini superficiali (piano infralitorale). Le Sabbie di Asti sono note in campo internazionale per l'elevato contenuto paleontologico con fossili talora concentrati in livelli di spessore discreto. Siffatta notorietà ha portato la Regione Piemonte a istituire, nel 1985, la Riserva Naturale Speciale di Valle Andona e Valle Botto finalizzata alla geoconservazione (tutela e fruizione) del patrimonio paleontologico e attualmente gestita dall’Ente Parchi e Riserve Astigiani. Il contenuto paleontologico del tratto inferiore e medio delle Sabbie di Asti è ben documentato nella classica sezione del Castello di Valleandona, citata in letteratura come sezione-tipo per le Sabbie di Asti. Vi si possono riconoscere due livelli fossiliferi. Quello superiore, caratterizzato dalla frequenza del bivalve Isognomon maxillatus, si estende su buona parte del territorio astigiano con caratteristiche simili. Lo strato fossilifero inferiore, dominato dal bivalve Glycymeris insubrica, è sviluppato nelle valli Andona e Monale. Tali paleocomunità a molluschi, in parallelo con altre associazioni fossili, si riferiscono ad altrettanti biotopi che documentano l'evoluzione fisiografica e la progressiva riduzione di profondità del mare pliocenico astigiano, sino all'emersione villafranchiana.
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I found this at Staithes in west yorkshire. Maybe it's a really detailed shell, but what is the super sharp pencil tip like thing at the side?
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Maybe some type of Brachiopod, or Coral
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Roughly 3 inches long and 1 in wide. Back is white and recessed.
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I found this yesterday at runswick bay in Yorkshire. It's very hard. Could anyone tell me what type of creature this is, or is it just a funny shaped pebble?
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Hi this is Matt again today in the creek I found this cool clam fossil it has many clams in it big and small here is a photo of the clam fossil enjoy everyone
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Hi guys, Here I am with the second fossil that I would like to identify . I am thinking about a cerithium but I am absolutely not sure... I purchased this fossil about 30 years ago when I was a little child and I don't have any other information on it. Could you help me, please? Thank you very much Alessio
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Hi guys, First of all I introduce myself as it's my first discussion: I'm Italian and I've just started collecting fossils. I would like to focus my collection on fossils of dinosaurs (I'm waiting a spinosaurus and a triceratops' tooth purchased this morning on dinofossils) but I am interested in invertebrate ones too. I am starting to classify the second ones that I already have since I was a child and,as a consequence, I need your kind and precious help for this first fossil, please. I am really enthusiastic about this new adventure and I hope to learn from you as much as I can. Thank you very much Alessio
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Can anyone tell me what this fossil is. I just found it and thought this would be a good place to ask.
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I found this close to a lake where My famaiky has a cottage and I do not know much about fossils. There appears to be a creature of some sorts as well as a salt water shell even though we are thousands of miles from any salt water.
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Common species, can go up to 60mm.
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Hello, another one from Ayios Athanasios hills, 5km from shore, this one I already prepped, it's a bit confusing, at some point there seems to be a shell over a shell, when I tried to prep the inside, there were white and red parts, also a small round shell part, so I stopped till I get your advice. Is it half a brachiopod again or something else? It is white/pearly with light shades of grey as opposed to which was more brown/orange and bigger Here are the photos the size is 38mm from one far side to the other, yet the one side is slightly broken so ...
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I would appreciate any help in identifying the fossils below. I have many pieces like the ones in the picture. They are basically very similar in shape with a ridge/line on the back. I find most of my fossils walking the beaches near South Ponte Vedra, FL
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Hello people, This and more stuff I found on the hills of Ayios Athanasios, app 10km from the beach. It looks like a shell, or 2 shells, and I think is one of the cases that needs to be cleaned. Any idea how to remove the white stone material without breaking the 'shell' which is brown/orange/yellow colored
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My friend has this fossil he says is from Kansas or Kentucky, but we don't know what it is. Anyone know?
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I occasionally find one of these small reddish-brown colored "shells" insitu in large blocks of material that come down from a particular layer of sediment along Calvert Cliffs, MD (Miocene). The max size for these is about 1/2" in diameter, but most are small like the ones in my pic below. Anyone have any idea as to what these little "shells" are called? They only seem to be one piece. Daryl.
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Hi, My family co-owns some property along the Cacapon River in West Virginia, and we often find small fossil shells in great numbers along the roads and creeks. Here are a couple pictures for reference, I think they're Brachiopods? https://i.imgur.com/C3D0QUU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/dWgZ617.jpg There are tons of rocks like this in the area, most of which are brittle shale. You can find them just about anywhere, but they're most common on the banks around small creeks. The shell impression on the bottom right of the second image was the largest fossil we'd ever found there, but within a few minutes we stumbled across something similarly sized that we've never seen before. https://i.imgur.com/NbYwr9R.jpg It's about four inches long, segmented, and tapers toward the end. Up close it has a very fine texture pattern that reminded me of coral. A volunteer at our local library seems confident it's the impression from an Orthocone shell, but I wanted to be certain. Can anyone give us an ID? Thanks very much!
