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Based on your coordinates:

 

Oman.jpg

 

 

And according to this geologic map:

 

TN_Plate_01.png

 

 

The area appears to be Cretaceous, in age. 

 

TN_Plate_01-1-horz.jpg

 

What is the size of this item?

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Probably they are bivalve shells (like the heart shaped one), gastropod shells (the spiralling one), eventually rudist remains, embedded in matrix. They look similar to the United Arab Emirate ones or adjacent areas. A good reference about the fauna of that region might be Palaeoecology of hard substrate faunas from the Creataceous Quahlah Formation of the Oman Mountains - Mark A. Wilson,Paul D. Taylor, 2001.pdf

Pictures are taken from these sites just for exemplification :

http://www.paraglidingmap.com/sites/United Arab Emirates
http://www.uaeec.com/vb/showthread.php/22341-

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Thank you for the answers.

 

The larger heart-shaped fossil is about 10-12 cm across.

 

Is the elongated part at the top of the heart-shaped fossil part of the same creature?

 

Thank you again.

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I suppose that it is from a different specimen, also the next one and the other one, in order from left to right.

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