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:popcorn: John

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1 hour ago, Wrangellian said:

Closeups of the rest? (something for us Invert guys too?) Looks like you have lots of variety.

Plants, trilos, crinoids, ammonites, orthoceras.

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Some nice stuff in there. Do you have information for all of it? Where is that little cone from and how old?

The light-grey, gritty crab concretion look like one of ours, from Shelter Point, Vanc. Isl. but I could be wrong..

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7 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

Some nice stuff in there. Do you have information for all of it? Where is that little cone from and how old?

The light-grey, gritty crab concretion look like one of ours, from Shelter Point, Vanc. Isl. but I could be wrong..

 

 

Good eye there Wrangellian it is from your neck of the woods.   Longusorbis cunniculosis.  Vancouver Island. Can't seem to find much on it.  All I could find was a reference to a 1975 paper.  Is it rare?

 

As far as the pine cone goes, he lost the paper work so I plan to put it in the ID section.

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The Longusorbis is from Shelter Point just south of Campbell River. Oyster Bay Formation (Upper Campanian). They only occur at that one spot, from what I understand.

 

Some people frown on buying/selling fossils but it's a thrill to acquire a collection like this.. I did it once when I bought all but the top-shelf stuff this old couple from Nanaimo had, and I think I got a deal at $90, though it was a pain to get all the unlabeled stuff sorted out - that was my main purpose in joining TFF in the first place. Which puts it in mind to repost some of the stuff I didn't get ID'd then, in case there are fresh eyes now that can help...

 

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