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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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I found this fossil today, near L'Île-Bizard - on the shore. It is some kind of big snail. N.1 N.2 N.3 N.4 N.5 N.6 N.7 N.8 N.9
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I found this very complete snail/mollusk looking fossil, it’s the first time I’ve seen the shell and body shape of a snail type organism preserved equally well in a fossil I’ve found- can anyone help tell me what organism it is specifically and from what time period? I found it in Southampton, Ontario in my rock garden, so I don’t know whether the rocks from the rock garden are from a quarry or the shores of Lake Huron (I would guess they’re from Lake Huron, but I don’t know). Thanks for your help, I’ve been holding onto this for years and always been curious as to what it is! Christian
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This is the largest gastropod I've found and with intact aperture to boot. Is it larger version of the smaller ones? Is that a turritella next to it?
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I found this snail fossil in a gravel road, and was wondering what species it is. I already did some research and I think it might be a species of Anchura, but I'm not sure.It's shell coils and I'm pretty sure the tip of the shell is gone. The shell is just a bit over 2 cm in length.
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As battered as this is, it is an unusually well-preserved specimen for this locality. Although there are brachiopods and bivalves that preserved as calcium carbonate at this locatlity, most gastropods in the Cretaceous of Delaware are either steinkerns or are preserved as battered phosphate with phosphate in-fill. Gouging appears to have occurred after fossilization since the matrix does not completely fill the gouges. Most shell predation at Reedy Point came from clionia sponges and boring clams. This resembles neither. This was found in loose sand from dredge spoils.
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Bruclarkia columbiana or Solenosteira macrospira or ?
OregonFossil posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
As I am working my way through the Keasey fm. rocks looking for fossils, I was gathering up the shards and small pieces and I notice a small piece of shell in the deep water piece I was working. Kept it just to check it out. as you can see the gastropod (I think, closest shells with the ribbing and rings are Bruclarkia columbiana and Solenosteira macrospira (does not seem to have been found in the Keasey Fm.)) The rest of the matrix is very hard and the dental picks won't scratch what is left. I think the center shows this is definitely a Gastropod but only a partial shell and one that is really small. Know this is not much to go on but anyone want to take a guess as to what it is? The shell is very small, 2mm at most across and the top is missing but there maybe more bottom of the shell in the very hard matrix. Took a while to get it out of the 10 x 6mm sliver it was encased in.
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Pittsberg Bluff Formation, Oligocene Neverita?
OregonFossil posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
This specimen was found in the Pittsburg Bluff formation (Oligocene) in loosely consolidate sandstone. Due to the large opening and smooth shell I believe it to be a Neverita. Although the location is near the town of Pittsberg Oregon, I can't recommend it for the faint of heart (you are about 4' from the traffic which is mostly log trucks going > 55 MPH). However that being said the talus at the bottom of this formation is a marine invertebrate hunters gold mine. There was one piece of the sandstone that was fairly large (over a meter long) and it and every stone beneath had fossils. Most of the rocks in talus were covered with mud and water. This was only 2 days ago, so I have barely start to ID stuff. Here is my first find, just like this laying in talus covered with mud and water. Specimen is 5mm wide by 10mm long. Quite happy with location and the condition of the fossils.
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On a recent fossil outing, I visited a large shell bed in a creek near Williamsburg, VA that I read to be of the Late Miocene Cobham Bay Member, Eastover Formation. Many of the fossils we found seemed to confirm that this site is Miocene age. We found Chesapecten middlesexensis, Isognomon sp., Glycymeris sp., Ostrea compressirostra, Lirophora sp. However, we also found these three Turritella shell fragments. They measure about 2-3cm in length. I thought these shells looked very similar to the Turritella alticostata posted by @sixgill pete from the Yorktown Fm of NC or the Turritella alumensis posted by @MikeR from the Jackson Bluff Formation of FL. The issue though is that both of these species are from the Pliocene. Turritella plebia is supposedly the species found in the Miocene Eastover Formation, but these shells don't look to be T. plebia. I would normally say that these are probably loose finds from the Yorktown Formation that got mixed in with the other Eastover Formation fossils, but these fossils were found in situ and in layers below those that I found the Isognomon sp. shells. If these were Pliocene aged, I would normally expect that they would be located above the Miocene Isognomon shells. I was wondering if someone might be able to solve my confusion. Perhaps these shells are of a third Turritella species that I am not aware of or perhaps the species I referenced above were not limited to the Pliocene. Alternatively this site could not be of the Miocene Eastover Formation and I am just very confused. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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5 days late my scope arrives late yesterday. Put it together before bed time:) I had read here I believe that you could adapt the triocular camera adapter by using a .96" EP holder. I did but I got rid of the AM supplied connector and used a .96 (with electric tape) to 1 1/4" adapter. Using the snout (1 1/4") that came with my Astro 224 camera it works. Downside is very high Power. However when I am not removing tiny Eocene invertebrates the high power images can be useful (although I do have a regular macro setup for bigger finds). Here is how I got the attached 5 image stack. I use SharpCap to capture single snaps to a folder (Using PNG/color). Then place them in Photoshop in layers, and then align and focus stack. Will be useful in helping to identify the species of snail that this is. I put a .5 inexpensive reduce on the 224 to get usable scale (it is going to be great for real micro fossils and water life in my creek. Snail in image is 2mm long, so while big for a micro fossil I think it still can be called one:)! Not using the 224 that much since I got the larger sensor 294, so its new use will find it atop a microscope instead of a telescope:)I captured the image out to ShapeCap (astronomy software) on my desk using the 50" 4K Tv to view. All in all very happy with the setup. 3x-10x is perfect for digging the small guys out of matrix, high mag's for shell features for species ID.
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My wife brought this piece back from seller along road in High Atlas Mountains in Morocco . thank you Rick
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From the album: Aurora/Lee Creek Mine Micro Matrix
Tiny marine gastropod from the Pliocene/Pleistocene micro matrix of the Nutrien Aurora/Lee Creek Phosphate Mine in Auora, North Carolina -
From the album: Aurora/Lee Creek Mine Micro Matrix
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This is my very first post on The Fossil Forum. I was hoping for some experts to weigh in on what exactly are these fossils. I picked them from a lake shore in Central Texas. Can you please tell me the species? What are the approximate ages for these? Why did they go extinct? Thank you for all of your help. Dubs
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From the album: Huge Big Brook Fossil Collection
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This came from a bag of mixed micro matrix from the Lee Creek AKA Aurora Mine which was sifted, sifted again and sifted some more. It is a mixture of material from three formations: the Miocene Pungo River Fm., the Pliocene Chowan River Fm., and the Pleistocene James City Fm. After digging through reputable resources covering the area from Maryland down to Florida, the administrators and I have mostly ruled out Miocene as none of the references mention anything similar from that time period. Three names are given for the species from the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Ward and Blackwelder (1987) identify Arene pergemma, with a description and illustration that looks very much like this gastropod and is about the same size, from the Lee Creek Mine1. The Paleobiology Database says that Arene pergemma is an old name and gives Marevalvata tricarinata as the accepted name2. The Neogene Atlas of Ancient Life says that Marevalvata tricarinata is no longer valid either, and has this species recombined as Arene tricarinata3, a name which actually predates Arene pergemma4. The Neogene Atlas does list a very similar shell, Arene agenea, which lived during the early Miocene. However, A. agenea has a circular aperture while the mystery shell has a more elliptical aperture from every angle I use th photograph it. A. agenea also has less defined ornamentation than the shell in question. Furthermore, the Neogene Atlas only lists A. agenea as occurring in the Chipola Fm. of northern Florida4. All agree that the fossil occurs only in the Pliocene and early Pleistocene from North Carolina down to Florida, but only mention them occurring in North Carolina in the Pleistocene Waccamaw Fm. further south and the Late Pliocene Duplin Fm. to the west. Ward and Blackwelder discuss a couple similar species in their discussion of the genus, but give no identification for them in the book I have available. Given this, I think this specimen is most likely from the Pliocene. However, after deliberating with a TFF malacologist, this might be a new undocumented species altogether that could be from any one of the three time periods and formations. Bibliography 1) Ward, Lauck W., and Blake W. Blackwelder. 1987. “Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca From the James City and Chowan River Formations at the Lee Creek Mine.” Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, II, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. Smithsonian Institution, pp. 163-164. 250-251. 2) http://www.fossilworks.org 3) Ward, Lauck W., and Blake W. Blackwelder. 1987. “Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca From the James City and Chowan River Formations at the Lee Creek Mine.” Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, II, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. Smithsonian Institution, pp. 163-164. 4) https://neogeneatlas.net/species/arene-tricarinata/ 5) https://neogeneatlas.net/species/arene-agenea/
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Possible ID of Trepospira sphaerulata from a local gastropod expert, but he isn’t sure. Similar ones in a group with original specimen at the right. Left is suspect of being related, but it might be.
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I am a contractor and found this in 2004 in Austin, TX on an empty house lot. Probably boring to yall but was just curious as to what it was. I'm thinking a snail but would like to know the real name of it as I have no knowledge about this kind of thing. Currently being used as a paper weight. The dimensions are 168mm wide 127mm deep 99mm tall. 2.63 kg Thank you for your help! Mark
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Hello, sorry to be a pain with all these IDs. I thought itd be easier if I just put all of them in one post. All were found in Northamptonshire, UK. Which is mostly Jurassic in age. Sorry there's no scale, I couldn't find my ruler anywhere. I'll have to upload more images below this. Its been quite some time since I've found ammonites. The land had just been rotavated, and aside from the ammonites, I found some Bivalves, and two golf balls buried. Thanks. These are the first two ammonites, I tried to ID them, but they are incomplete, so it was a difficulty, the closest I think it looks like is Harpoceras. Each are about two centimetres (about 0.8 inches). I saw a neighbour had a very similar rock with two larger ammonites on them that was being used to hold a fence down.
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Are these fossils or not?
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I hunt fossils in gravel from creeks and the likes. According to the geological survey of similar gravel the age ranges from 200-400 million years ago. I was wondering if you guys could tell me if this was an ammonite or some other sea gastropod. I've found countless other types of fossils but this is the only one like this.
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