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Hi, welcome from France. Could you tell us where do they come from, what is their geological age if you know it, what are their size and what kind of stuff you can find nearby ? Really, that would help very much. :)

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Welcome to the forum. Where did you find these (geographical location or geological layer)? What are the dimensions of each specimen? Can you post photos of each specimen from several different angles? This will greatly improve your chances of getting a correct identification.

Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer

Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year

Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert

Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous

Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk

Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus

Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html

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Welcome to TFF ! :)
Most of them look like internal molds (steinkerns) of bivalves, the spiralling ones are probably from gastropods, but not knowing the above requested data is just a guess.

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Found in a cave on the banks of the Danube, the Balkan Peninsula.

Wide 12 cm in diameter.And it is quite heavy.

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5 cm in length and is much smaller than the first.

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4 cm in length

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With the new data, I think I was in the good direction. Take a look at here, all toghather in Google search. https://www.google.ro/search?q=intenal+molds+of+bivalves&biw=1360&bih=612&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiL-tyUyr_OAhWDtxQKHdkgAHEQ_AUIBigB&gws_rd=cr&ei=zLavV8aeNsLjU9H7nMgJ#tbm=isch&q=internal+molds+of+bivalves
The last one is a fragment of an internal mold of a bivalve in a view of the valves when they once were closed together (not a rudist upper valve).

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Abyssunder is a mine. You want further information on bivalves ? Ask Abyssunder. :)

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