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Hello everyone. I am Italian and I have a passion for metal detecting, sometimes though I come across "strange" rocks that I always photograph. Meeting area is the Emilian Apennines (Italy), could you help me understand what I photographed?
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Hey all. Found this sort of trace fossil I'm assuming, in some shale shelves. My initial thought was Gryphaea but it lacks the proper lines and structure to be a shell. Now I'm leaning towards Zoophycos. Can anyone confirm if it is zoophycos, and help with the morphology of this specific find? I'm under the impression that zoophycos morphology changed throughout the ages, and I'm trying to reverse ID the age of rocks I found it in since the geological maps of my area are extremely vague and lack detail. Let me know if more angles are required for this ID. Cheers.
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Thaught I would share the location where I have found large sections of well preserved Zoophycos and burrows. Interestingly the Zoophycos is in its own layer while the layer just beneath that has worm burrows. Also fond a random bone peaking out from the wall. Any ideas what the bone might be from. Left the bone there, it's very brittle.
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Zoophycos are swirling patterns in silt stone that may cover acres of flat ground. These trace fossils occur on the sea floor from the Ordovician to present, but no specific animal has been definitively identified. It is believed that they are created by movement and feeding patterns of polychaete worms.
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While on a walkabout, I chanced across a lower Mississippian formation called Andrecito having this fossil remnant that I believe is Zoophycos. Would someone who knows please advise if this correct? Thank you, Kato
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From the album: WhodamanHD's Fossil collection.
A large zoophycos outside of McCoys ferry. To my knowledge it's still there. It's not really in my collection because I didn't have the tools to remove it at the time but since it's my icon I will consider it part of my collection.- 2 comments
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