jawismann Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I found these a few years back on the beach in North Carolina. not sure what they are but I found a lot of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
araucaria1959 Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Looks like the internal cast of a bivalve. araucaria1959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 In other words: the sediment that filled a big old clam long ago, turned to stone, and then the shells dissolved away. "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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 di you find them on the beach or in a gravel parking area at the beach? These are extremely common in some of the quarries in eastern NC and are in parking lots, driveways etc. all over the state. We called them petrified clams when I was a kid. But, I never have seen them actually on a beach. 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 May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 There are been plenty of storms that washed parking lots into the ocean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 There are been plenty of storms that washed parking lots into the ocean. That is true, along with houses roads etc ... 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 May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawismann Posted June 19, 2013 Author Share Posted June 19, 2013 I found them on the beach. it was on cherry grove beach in north myrtle beach early in the morning right after the tide went out. I was digging in a tide pool and came across at least a dozen of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Chery Grove beach South Carolina, not North Carolina. Never collected there so I am not familiar with the normal finds there. 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 May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 plenty of Peedee Formation, late cretaceous, steinkerns on the beaches in the Myrtle Beach area as well as along the waterway, this one looks like Cucculea, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaximusTN Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 A gentleman that was metal detecting just south of Cherry Grove Pier gave one of these to my little one and said it was a petrified turtle head. It sure does resemble one if you call that U shape the mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 On 19/06/2013 at 5:02 PM, Plax said: plenty of Peedee Formation, late cretaceous, steinkerns on the beaches in the Myrtle Beach area as well as along the waterway, this one looks like Cucculea, I agree with that ID. "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...
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