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Help Identifying Fossil found on Beach in SC


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Please help me identify this fossilized bone (tooth? Vertebrae?) found about 1/2 meter deep, buried in the sand on Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on May, 2020. 

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Welcome to the forum!

I think, you have a bivalve steinkern.

Very nice!

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" We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. "

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Thanks so much!  I never would have figured that out on my own!

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Cucullaea sp. ,  a Cretaceous clam from the PeeDee Formation. Often called heart clam or deer heart clam. A common find. 

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Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt
behind the trailer, my desert
Them red clay piles are heaven on earth
I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt

Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers

 

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That's

that's I was think about, but i'm at least 10000 miles away frorn the location ...

" We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. "

Thomas Mann

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