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Found a shoreline on the Missouri River in southeastern South Dakota with some mollusc fossils. There were lots like the one on the left, but only one I could find like the one on the right. Can anyone identify these? 

 

They'd be from the Cretaceous period, right?

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The fossil on the right is the size of a quarter. The ones on the left range from softball to golf ball.

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The one on the right appears to be an impression of a nautiloid.

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I agree with nautiloid (probably ammonite) on the right. These were alive during the Cretaceous, and I've heard of one song in South Dakota.

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8 minutes ago, boof said:

Thanks for the replies! Does anyone have input on the fossils on the left?

Maybe something akin to inoceramus?

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I would agree. 

Some sort of Inoceramid.

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The bivalves appear to be in the Inoceramus spectrum.  The ammonite impression should be compared closely with Prionocyclus.  Have you looked at a geomap of the collecting area?  This stuff looks Upper Cretaceous to me.  Ammonite ID can be pinpointed much faster if you share geologic formation.

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18 minutes ago, Uncle Siphuncle said:

...The ammonite impression should be compared closely with Prionocyclus...

...as well as Collignoniceras woollgari regulare.

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1 hour ago, WhodamanHD said:

Maybe something akin to inoceramus?

Yes, something along those lines. Certainly Bivalve.

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So we thinkin' Turonian?

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