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Hi Everyone, I was hoping that someone is good with odd bivalves here. I was searching around my favourite spot at Northwest Bay in the Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island Canada. One of the spots is in a layer of very soft shale that erodes out onto the beach. I undercovered this fossil which I initially assumed was a pocket of young Inoceramus vancouverensis. This is very common in the Nanaimo Group, but not at this location. As I looked further I noticed elongated material that had a thin shell coating under the bivalve shells, Then I noticed the layer of coalified material between the shell and thin layer of shelly material. Could this be Martesia, the shipworm? As the fossil material is very flattened it takes a bit of imagination to figure out its shape in 3 D. Any help would be great!
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This just fell into my lap, but I'm having a hard time telling exactly what it is. Seems to have been burrowed in by clams? Worms? Somethingorother. Not my area of expertise, so I rely on y'all. Found in northwestern Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Sorry for the lack of scale, but I assure you, those are standard-sized human hands. First four photos are outside, last one is a straight-through cut. Any ideas? Appreciate the help as always!
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Rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (Shipworm), Bohol, Philippines
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Lithoredo abatanica, below article, should have left some interesting trace fossils in the rock record. This Weird Animal Eats Rocks for Breakfast By Laura Geggel, LiveSciecne, June 19, 2019 https://www.livescience.com/65739-newly-discovered-clam-eats-rocks.html It would be a nightmare as an invasive species. The open-access paper is: Shipway, J.R., Altamia, M.A., Rosenberg, G., Concepcion, G.P., Haygood, M.G. and Distel, D.L., 2019. A rock-boring and rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (shipworm) from the Philippines. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1905), p.20190434. – Open Access https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0434 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31213180 Yours, Paul H.
