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Little Bowl Shaped Coastal South Carolina Fossils


Kelleyack

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Every time we go fossil hunting - we live on the coast of South Carolina - I find these little bowl shaped fossils with imprints of shells or other marine life inside the depression. Can someone tell me more about them? I always bring them home because I think they are neat but don't really know how they are formed!

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Looks like worn pieces of limestone with scallop molds (two shells) and possibly a coral (lower right).

I think what happens is the animal dies and is buried in sediment, and at sometime (ie during very low sea level, the shell dissolves and all you are left with is a mold.

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have seen these here in NC. Most are bryozoan coatings over fossils. Sometimes the fossil is dissolved away leaving only it's impression in the bryozoan colony

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5 minutes ago, eastofthecooper said:

love these! where do you fossil hunt in s.c.?

This is an old post, i'm afraid, and member @Kelleyackhasn't logged on for more than six years. 

Still, you may get lucky. 

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