Lukel1988 Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Hello, can someone help me ID this? Me and my work friends have had a heated debate over this. I think this is a petrified shell and they say I am wrong and that it is obviously just a shell. Please can someone confirm whether this is a fossil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Welcome to the Forum. Where was this found? 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...
ynot Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Welcome to TFF! It looks like a fossil oyster, but a location would help to confirm this. 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...
Herb Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 It is an oyster "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...
WATERLINE Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 It is an oyster...Scientific name is Gryphaea arcuata...Lower Jurassic bivalve. I found similar up near Speeton on the Yorkshire coast about twenty years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Welcome to the forum! I think the common (fun) name is "Devil's toenail." Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elcoincoin Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 +1 on gryphea and yes its a fossil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukel1988 Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 Thanks for your help guys, I'm currently working on a gas site and found this in the gravel, I guess off the sea bed. There are many of these, along with what appears to be petrified wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Just now, Lukel1988 said: Thanks for your help guys, I'm currently working on a gas site and found this in the gravel, I guess off the sea bed. There are many of these, along with what appears to be petrified wood. Where are You working? There are gas sites all over the world. 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...
Lukel1988 Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 Peterborough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 gryp Tony Hallam noted some correlations between abundance and facies,BTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 nice find!, welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yvie Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Welcome to TFF. Great find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 One could say Peterborough is a little far from the Yorkshire coast, but *this document confirms the existence of Gryphaea in the Peterborough region. So, I agree with WATERLINE, that the specimen in question is a Gryphaea fossil oyster. Nice one, BTW! " Graphic sections. Figure 3 is a log of the section based on examination of the beds in situ; key beds are indicated on the photograph (Fig. 2). Figure 4 includes a log of the condensed lower beds. The equivalents of these beds have yielded most of the large vertebrate fossils recorded from the Peterborough district (Martill 1985, 1986) and are characterized by shell beds with abundant Gryphaea dilobotes Duff; we refer to them informally as the ‘Gryphaea and Reptile Beds’. " (...) - as stated in * Hudson-Martill, 1994 Also, here is a mentioned... " They are all obviously Gryphaea species but seem to vary between the shape of G. arcuata and G. dilobotes. They may, of course, just be variations within a single species. " " 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...
Lukel1988 Posted March 16, 2017 Author Share Posted March 16, 2017 Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukel1988 Posted March 16, 2017 Author Share Posted March 16, 2017 This is what we found in about 20mins. Are the two long ones petrified wood? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 4 hours ago, Lukel1988 said: This is what we found in about 20mins. Are the two long ones petrified wood? They look more like Belemnites to me. Neat finds. 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...
ynot Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 I agree with belemnites. 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...
abyssunder Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Yes, they could be that. " 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...
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