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Lance's first fossil pearl.

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LanceH Regular Member

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I finally found a fossil pearl.  It's from the Kamp Ranch limestone.

 

It's almost perfectly round with milky inclusions.

 

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rocket Regular Member

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boff, great one! Do you have oysters with them? Just working on a paper about cretaceous pearls from NW-Germany, Campanian. We find them (very very rare...) togehter with oyster-shells

Incredible to see this one, they are really rare...

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Rare find, Lance.  Congratulations!  

 

Do you have any macro images?  :popcorn:

The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true.  -  JJ

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I didn't even know that they could fossilize. I guess I figured that they wouldn't decompose, interesting!

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Congrats Lance! That would be so exciting a find! 
 

Noob question: Have you ever heard of anyone finding some in Exogyra ponderosa? I found a few “sealed” ones and have heard rumors some of this species might have pearls fused inside them! 

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Nice shootin', Tex! I am very fond of these paleo jewels.

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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