vasili1017 Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Found this years ago while in Greece. The fossils on the island are from the Cretaceous. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 I think it is a concretion with a void inside, that has cracked in half. I think "vug" is a term that is used for this? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 2 hours ago, tmaier said: I think "vug" is a term that is used for this I agree that this is a concretion, but a vug is a crystal lined void in a rock. I see no crystals so not a vug. Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vasili1017 Posted December 3, 2016 Author Share Posted December 3, 2016 I almost can't believe it. A marine biology professor at Stockton university Identified the species for me when I found it but that was so long ago. I unfortunately lost the ID card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 It is possible that the dark line showing on the broken edge is a shell in cross section with the concretion built up around it. 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 There is an asymetry in all planes on this object that just scream out to me "I was never associated with any life form!". Most creatures have some symtric plane, and mirro image development, but this is blobular in all planes... not a higher life form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Harvey Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Looks like a partial internal cast of a nautilus to me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 1 hour ago, M Harvey said: Looks like a partial internal cast of a nautilus to me. I could also see that as a possibility, although somewhat deformed. 2 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Maybe a geological wonder in limestone performed by circulating water. " 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...
Plax Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 On 12/4/2016 at 5:24 PM, M Harvey said: Looks like a partial internal cast of a nautilus to me. I'm with M. Harvey. Or maybe a large whorl or a gastropod if you look at it from another angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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