JoeBader Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Hello, Can anyone ID the following? Length ~ 1,5 cm to 2 cm. Found in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon. Thank you in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelivingdead531 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 I’m not sure about all of them, but a few of them look like they might be echinoid spines. Wait for further confirmation though. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Cropped, rotated, enlarged, and brightened: 2 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 (edited) Can you indicate us in what layer you found them ? There do are urchins spines. I think there could be some bivalves also. Here is an article upon the geology of Mount Lebanon : https://chrisandalisonblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/geology-of-lebanon.pdf And a facebook page : https://m.facebook.com/Fossils-Rocks-of-Lebanon-140791426101231/ I also found that image of bivalves : Edited December 30, 2021 by fifbrindacier 1 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 15 hours ago, thelivingdead531 said: I’m not sure about all of them, but a few of them look like they might be echinoid spines. Wait for further confirmation though. I agree! There are echinoid spines. " 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 My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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