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2018 Addendum to Fossil Echinoids of Texas Book - do you have any Specimens you would like to add?
Bill Thompson posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I published the book Fossil Echinoids of Texas last November. Since that time other people have come forward or found new species. I am currently working to add and addendum to that book. Currently in have 5 new species that will be included in the addendum. Included are 2 new Salenias (1 from the Weno and 1 from the Glen rose), 2 Cidarid spines, 1 new Tiaromma. If you have any Texas echinoids that might be new, I would love to study it (them) and if it is new, I would gladly add that specimen to the publication. Please give me a call and we can talk about it. I live in New Braunfels. Bill Thompson www.echinoids.com -
I'd like to whiten a fossil sea urchin. Is hydrogen peroxide effective and harmless? I'm thinking 3%... any tips?
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I found this little jewel a while back, but never found out what species it is. Can anyone tell me what genus species it is? This is a close up of an ambulacral and pore area. I don’t think I can get much better on the close up picture quality. I do have a number of pics from other angles if needed. Thanks in advance for your input.
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My son found these on the DPS trip to Oliver Creek. The hand out that shows some of what you can find list Epiaster Whitei. My son is giving the bigger one to his school science teacher to go in the classroom with the ammonite already there, so I need to make sure I put the proper information on the identification card I'm sending with it, so can anyone say for sure what these are? Thank you.
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Hi all, As well as being a great fossil enthusiast, I also love finding modern remains of life and nature. Like a few of you already know, I am also quite fond of seashells (fossil seashells are one of my favorite things). Minerals also interest me, though I don't know much about them. And anything else to do with nature will get me interested. I just came back yesterday from some fantastic holidays in Greece, and didn't come back empty-handed! At first, we stayed for a few days at one of our friend's house on the Greek island Paros. Then, we spent one night in Athens to visit the famous Acropolis, before spending a few days at Gerolimenas, a small village at the tip of the Mani peninsula (Peloponnese). Finally we stayed two nights in Nafplio, in the north of the Peloponnese, and then returned to the cold and rainy Netherlands. Surely holidays to remember! Of course, I was constantly looking around for fossils, seashells, and other things, enjoying the slightly nerdy activities we all here enjoy so much. Though no fossils were found, I did find a few other things. Here are my different hauls! Chapter 1: Paros Paros is a lovely, typically Greek island, in the Aegean sea. The first few days here, having visited several different beaches, I found nearly nothing. Then one day, after having eaten a delicious grilled squid, I strolled on the beach, and bingo! Seashells everywhere! I quickly grabbed a plastic bag and filled it up with little treasures. I was really stunned by the beautiful Noah's Ark shells. That was the only beach where I made finds, but the finds were so great that it was enough to leave the place with good memories and happy hands. Total haul (things on top are not seashells, but other miscellaneous things): Some of my favorites: A small Diodora graeca: A very nice Haliotis mykonosensis: A beautiful Neverita josephina: A touch-looking crab claw: Some cool pink-red urchin spines: A small but stunning Arca noae:
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Hello, I just found this strange rock on a rocky beach in southern Italy - Europe. The rock is flat and well levigated all around... the central part has some blackish shades... and as You can see has all those strange lines/spikes starting from center... at first I thought about a sea urchin... but what attracted me most are those ramifications at top of the spikes and in between them... this detail make me wonder if is some kind of plant... Is it a fossil or is just my imagination that makes me believe that? Thanks for the attention...
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I picked up these two urchins recently! Georgetown Formation The one on the left was found whole, and the one on the right was excavated from matrix:
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Not sure what this is I found it while looking for garnets in sand in south Australia. i know it's some kind of urchin but I haven't been able to find any information on what it could be
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Good afternoon, I found these fossils in the Dessau Formation near Austin, Texas and have a good idea on most of them except the shark tooth. I am torn between Megalodon and Mackerel. Any ID on the others appreciated as well. Thank you
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Collected at Topsail Beach North Carolina during a beach re-nourishment project.
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Hi all I search the species of these urchins. Thank you for your help!
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Hello, I search the name of an urchin that I publish a 3D model on sketchfab. Thank you for your help! https://sketchfab.com/models/2bc77a3ab36248deb14c6132ae73106f
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Possible Hemiaster?
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I found a whole shelf of these sand dollar urchins fused in sandstone on the edge of Coronado Island, in the San Diego Bay. Anyone have a clue how old they are?
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We visited the Wilson Clay Pit in Coleman County, Texas last April. My dad stumbled across this little guy, which, according to the Color Guide of Pennsylvanian Fossils of North Texas (McKinzie and McLeod) is Pronechinus sp., a rare carboniferous echinoid known only from the Wilson Clay Pit and Diyarbakir Province in Turkey. Here is a link to the specimen found in Turkey. Notice the same double pores on the ambulacral plates as seen in the specimen we found. Scale is in centimeters...
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Hi, The following finds were all found on Bracklesham beach and have I hope been correctly identified, please let me know if not or how else will I learn I have noted the fossil bed where the designation is known however still trying to obtain a map/diagram of the assigned numbers. * Location: Bracklesham Bay, UK (SSSI designation) * Formation: Earnley * Period: Eocene 1. Scaphopoda (possibly Dentalium Constrictum) Feeding Tube * Bed: E3 - Cardita Bed * Size: 18mm in length 2.Coral Turbinola Phatra * Bed: E3 * Size: 7.5mm in length 3. Flint Urchin * Foreshore edge find * Size: 6cm 4. Goniopora Websteri coral * Bed: unknown designation (if there is one) but found in a rock filled gully during Spring Low Tide * Size: 4cm 5. Lepidotes Mantelli fish scales - this was another one of my 'hunch' finds and lived in my odds and sods tub til I got my magnifying lamp and confirmed it wasn't a man made enamel but Ganoin. * Bed E5 * Size: approx 11mm I will upload separately my Turtle, Sea Snake and Shark tooth finds
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From the album: Grayson Co. Texas finds
Echinoid in situ. Found in the north northeast corner of Grayson county Texas in Choctaw creek. Washita group possibly Weno? -
From the album: Grayson Co. Texas finds
Bottom of two Urchins were found in a creek that runs in north east Grayson co. Texas. I believe that they are in the Pawpaw formation, but could be Duck creek? -
From the album: Grayson Co. Texas finds
These two Urchins were found in a creek that runs in north east Grayson co. Texas. I believe that they are in the Pawpaw formation, but could be Duck creek? -
From the album: Senneville-sur-Fécamp
double micraster decipiens 1 view 2 - august 2015 :heart urchin from the turonian chalk of normandy - Senneville sur Fécamp -Turonian - Cretaceous -
From the album: Senneville-sur-Fécamp
double micraster decipiens 1 view 1 - august 2015 :heart urchin from the turonian chalk of normandy - Senneville sur Fécamp -Turonian - Cretaceous -
From the album: Senneville-sur-Fécamp
Micraster decipiens 2 - august 2015 :heart urchin from the turonian chalk of normandy - Senneville sur Fécamp -Turonian - Cretaceous -
From the album: Senneville-sur-Fécamp
Micraster decipiens 1 - august 2015 :heart urchin from the turonian chalk of normandy - Senneville sur Fécamp -Turonian - Cretaceous -
From the album: Senneville-sur-Fécamp
Echinocorys sp: urchin from the turonian flint of normandy - Senneville sur Fécamp -Turonian - Cretaceous
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