wojtek Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Hi, This is a picture in situ of my finding, that I could not identify. I would be grateful for any suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Welcome to TFF! Those would polish quite nicely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Those are cool looking! Nice find! I always wondered if Croatia had fossils, someday I'll have to acquire some. “...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...
andreas Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 They look like some Rudists. Definitly no Orthoceras. Nearly all coast of Croatia is late Jurassic or Cretaceous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 8 hours ago, andreas said: They look like some Rudists. Definitly no Orthoceras. Nearly all coast of Croatia is late Jurassic or Cretaceous. Thanks a bunch for the correction,andreas, I don't wish to spread incorrect info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wojtek Posted July 19, 2017 Author Share Posted July 19, 2017 Thank You all for Your replies and information! When I found the fossils I was surprised there were simply lying exposed just like that, next to the shore. It seems those are quite abundant there. Unfortunetely, best specimens were within large rocks, like in the picture. Impossible to pick. So... they are still there :-) But I could find some smaller pieces, mostly with "cross-sections" like these: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansTheLoser Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I guess Radiolites (rudist bivalve), so rather Late Cretaceous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I've never seen this topic, but I could say with certainty that they are rudists, all of them. Pretty nice finds! " 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...
abyssunder Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 On 7/19/2017 at 3:24 PM, wojtek said: When I found the fossils I was surprised there were simply lying exposed just like that, next to the shore. It seems those are quite abundant there. I'm wondering which coast are you referring to? There is no coast in East Croatia, because there is no Sea, so no shore. " 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...
wojtek Posted September 4, 2017 Author Share Posted September 4, 2017 Abyssunder, sorry for my imprecision. This was close to the village Pakostane - so, You are right - it was South :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supertramp Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 interesting… …I’ve found a very similar rudist limestone at the podium of the arch of Trajan (Ancona, central Italy); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Trajan_(Ancona) so, while the marble of the arch itself was from Turkey (Marmara Island), maybe the base stone was quarried much nearer (dalmatian coast), on the other side of the Adriatic sea; Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wojtek Posted September 5, 2017 Author Share Posted September 5, 2017 Wow! that's amazing! It seems to be perfectly same thing. Ancona seems to be the closest place to Zadar and Pakostane through the Adriatic sea. To give a wider picture and to show the type of the rock i'll attach the view of the place of my finding, on the opposite, dalmatian coast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 That's better. So, the rudists are from South Croatia, not from East Croatia as it was in the original statement. Now, if you want to know the species described from the Santonian-Lower Campanian sediments of Dalmatia/Zadar: Pakostane, I suggest to check this link. Maybe it helps in the ID. " 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...
abyssunder Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Similarly preserved specimens are the below ones from the vicinity, Bosnia and Herzegovina. link " 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...
Macrophyseter Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Woah, those are some cool fossils. I don't have a good guess right now, but for some reason they seem to be like vertebrate, but also like exoskeleton scales. Nice finds btw! If you're a fossil nut from Palos Verdes, San Pedro, Redondo Beach, or Torrance, feel free to shoot me a PM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 1 hour ago, Macrophyseter said: Woah, those are some cool fossils. I don't have a good guess right now, but for some reason they seem to be like vertebrate, but also like exoskeleton scales. Nice finds btw! If you scroll back upwards, you'll discover that they are rudists. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macrophyseter Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 oh, okay. If you're a fossil nut from Palos Verdes, San Pedro, Redondo Beach, or Torrance, feel free to shoot me a PM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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