lovec Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Hallo all, please can somebody help me with ID ? Cenoman ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0b Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 More information on where it was found will help the more accurate the better the chance of an id. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanotyrannus35 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 The last picture doesn't show any bone structure, so it definitely isn't bone. Not sure what it is though. Enthusiastic Fossil Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I think it could be a trace fossil. I've found similar ones in the Upper Cretaceous sediments in Romania. 4 " 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...
Paleorunner Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 If the finding was found in marine deposits, it is very likely that they are internal molds of galleries of some type of crustacean. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Paleorunner said: If the finding was found in marine deposits, it is very likely that they are internal molds of galleries of some type of crustacean. Wouldn't crustacean burrows have a rougher surface texture. This looks more smoothly linear to me, as if made by a body without claws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleorunner Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 47 minutes ago, Rockwood said: Wouldn't crustacean burrows have a rougher surface texture. This looks more smoothly linear to me, as if made by a body without claws. Not precisely. They are galleries dug out of the sand, which later solidifies. these photos are from Gyrolithes Vidali. Pliocene. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Interesting examples. I think the claw marks are in this though. They are just preserved very faintly in a coloration pattern. I don't see such a pattern on the post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 20 hours ago, Paleorunner said: Not precisely. They are galleries dug out of the sand, which later solidifies. these photos are from Gyrolithes Vidali. Pliocene. Wish I could find a Gyrolithes one day... " 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...
Paleorunner Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 On 1/8/2022 at 12:56 AM, Rockwood said: Interesting examples. I think the claw marks are in this though. They are just preserved very faintly in a coloration pattern. I don't see such a pattern on the post. Well, I don't know to what extent you could be right, but we are talking about a gallery fill, with a certain type of mineral material (internal mold) in which leaks and oxidations can intervene, therefore I have my doubts about what you think you see in that coloring pattern. I don't think it's worth having a debate about this, I just said it could possibly be, but I can't say. Therefore it would be better to leave this in the answer of @abyssunder ( I think it could be a trace fossil ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleorunner Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 13 hours ago, abyssunder said: Wish I could find a Gyrolithes one day... Yes, I would also like to have a complete piece like the one in the photo (it is from the small museum in my city). I have a certain outcrop from the Pliocene near where I live, where there is a large number in the landslide areas, but they are so fragile that the fragments that exist are only one spiral , or less Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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