Limestone Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 Found these fossil hunting on a small beach in northern puerto rico - lower miocene limestone. are these shipworm fossils? I found the rock with the hole on the same beach. Second picture is the inside of the biggest piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 They could be that only if the support material was wood. " 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...
Limestone Posted June 3, 2017 Author Share Posted June 3, 2017 Thank you for your reply Most were found isolated from the matrix. I dis see some on matrix that I didnt take home. Maybe a type another type of worm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 Does like like an annelid worm tubes, what type I don't know. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 They could be very well Kuphus species. Here are some examples from Zammit Maempel, George. Kuphus melitensis, a new teredinid bivalve from the Late Oligocene Lower Coralline Limestone of Malta. Contr. Tert. Quatern. Geol., 30(3-4): 155-175 " 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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