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Guguita2104

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I found all these fossils in a Jurassic beach, in Porto de Mós (in that we can find rare and well-preserved echinoderms).However there are some strange items and for that I need help to Id.

1-Sea urchin or mineral concentration(???)

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2-Bivalve/brachiopoda or just a quartz concentration?

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Sorry but I see neither a crinoid nor a starfish. All I see are trace fossils (burrows). The sea urchin spine is nice.

Don

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Thanks...Do you know what types of animals did that traces?

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I'm thinking and the fossil that I refered as a crinoid as a particular texture to be a trace fossil...Am I right or wrong?Can someone explain me?

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I don't know if I understand your question right, but as Don said, pic.4 resembles an echinoid spine (very nice BTW) not an ichnofossil (trace fossil) with particular texture.Here I try to show you similar ones from Mineral Wells,Palo Pinto co.,Texas post-17588-0-27447800-1438379565_thumb.jpg and Lake Bridgeport,Wise. post-17588-0-16240300-1438379579_thumb.jpg

http://northtexasfossils.com/2007-01-27.htm

What's in pic.3 I also think are trace fossils,not echinoid spines or crinoid remains (at least in lungitudinal section the stalk or the crown should look different from yours). In pic.2 maybe you are lucky to have a crinoid calix (but I'm not convinced about this ID).In pic.1 the images are unfocused and blury, so is not much to say about the content,sorry.

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