freeteaspirit Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I recently returned from living in Ecuador, South America, with a fossil that I found while at one of the beaches there (Canoa) and I am looking for some one who might be able to identify what it belongs to/ or came from/ and how old it is. It looks like a toe or maybe the tip of a tail...? I have attached detailed photographs. Thanks so much for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Part of a starfish? "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I brightened and enlarged your pictures. Odd, whatever it is. Regards, 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I don't know much about tropical crabs, but this looks like part of crab claw. 3 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Good point, Harry! What is the size of this item? Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 It does indeed look like part of a crab claw as Harry suggested. Very cool looking whatever it is. 1 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...
Peat Burns Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Here is a chela of the giant hermit crab Petrochirus diogenes (not likely a match for your specimen - this one is extant from the Caribbean) for comparison of the surface structure. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 The resemblance is good, so, there is no need for the dimensions (looking at the background writing as reference). Good work, everyone ! " 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...
freeteaspirit Posted June 17, 2016 Author Share Posted June 17, 2016 Thanks for all of the comments- and for the brightening and enlarging of the photos! It measures roughly 1 1/2" x 1" to 1/4" at the tip. The texture does strongly resemble the giant hermit crab- but I've never seen a crab claw that was flat on one side- and the flat side appears to have lizard type padding on it. I also thought starfish initially but it lacks the tiny hair/sucker type texture that starfish have underneath as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Not use to seeing pustuals on a crab claw, but that's exactly what it looks like. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 You folks beat me! Failed to write down the name of the crab but here's a shot of its claw in an aquarium in Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 nice crab piece "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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