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A nice Dictyonema flabelliforme dendroid graptolite from Oslo Fields in Norway. It's Tremadoc, Lower Ordovician in age and is thus maybe around 480 mya. Another angle :
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From the album: Fossildude's Purchased/Gift Fossils
Lituites lii (Middle Ordovician ammonoid) before and after prep with air abrasives. The dolomite may have been a bit harsh, but some more matrix could be removed. I will have to take some time with baking soda to try to remove the excess. Not too bad, though.© © 2014 Tim Jones
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From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Lituites Fossil China TIME PERIOD: late Ordovician Period (445-458 Million Years ago) Data: Lituites is an extinct nautiloid genus from the Middle Ordovician and type for the Lituitidae (a tarphycerid family) that in some more recent taxonomies has been classified with the orthocerids and listed under the order Lituitida. it's now considered widespread, Fossils have been found in New York, Argentina, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, and China. Lituites produced a shell with a planospirally coiled juvenile portion at the apex, reflective of its tarphycerid ancestry, followed by a long, moderately expanding, generally straight, orthoconic adult section with a subdorsal siphuncle connecting the chambers. The adult body chamber may equal or exceed the length of the chambered part of the orthoconic section. The mature aperture has a pair of pronounced ventrolateral lappets and a similar but shorter pair of dorsolateral lappets. Lituites gives its name to the term "lituiticone" which refers to a shell that is coiled in the early growth stage and later becomes uncoiled. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Cephalopoda Order: †Orthocerida Family: †Lituitidae Genus: †Lituites -
Every now and then, like lately, when I cant prep cause my compressor is down, i have to find other stuff to do, and in doing so I run into fossil stuff Ive forgetten about. I was prepping, (using my foredom grinder), out a rather large ammonite for my sons freind and once I put on some 2 part putty and had to wait for that to cure, i decided to do some snooping in my garage. I ran into this Russian trilobite and a Lituite multi plate from china. I bought these things a long time ago back when i use to do the fossil shows. I didnt find them or prep them so they have no sentimental value whatsoever. Not sure what to do with them at the moment? But still, all cool stuff. RB
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From the album: China
Please DO NOT... 1) Repost this without my permission 2) Claim this as your own 3) Post it elsewhere without stating permission situation If you are planning to change this image in any way, please contact me before you do so. This image has been copyrighted. ------------------------------------------------------------------- This polished nautiloid is from the Ordovician of Hubei Province. Known as the "ram's horn" in China, this species of nautiloid displays a strange structure, similar to that of a sprouting fern.© ©2012 ~quicksilver123
