jhw Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 My girlfriend is wine tasting her way through Italy for a few weeks. Tough gig huh? Anyways, today she’s in Tuscany and the winery she was at had a display and story of how the soil was very fossiliferous. No listing of geological age and the server there didn’t know much more either. She wasn’t sure which area of Tuscany she was in and the geologic maps I looked up seemed to run anywhere from upper cretaceous on. She managed to talk them out of one of their display pieces for me, with a fairly good sized wine order no doubt! She only sent this one photo, and they packed it with her wine to ship, so I don’t have a lot to go by until I have it in hand. It’s an interesting rock and kind of has the look of some Schist like formations I’ve seen her in the states. I can kind of imagine possible shell imprints in a few places but not sure. Or could the whole piece be fossil? Not sure. Any guesses or illumination would be appreciated. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Kind of reminds me of a stromatolite “...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...
jhw Posted August 31, 2017 Author Share Posted August 31, 2017 Hmm, I kind of looked at the layering as geologic, but that's a thought. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Looks like a shell, oyster type to me. 1 John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 It looks more like shell material. An oyster fragment would be a good guess. Possibly, the cropped portion of the photo shows a barnacle base ('scar'), the area where a barnacle once was attached to a hard substrate. comparative picture from here " 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...
KCMOfossil Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 4 hours ago, JohnBrewer said: Looks like a shell, oyster type to me. I agree with oyster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhw Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 Cool! Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhw Posted September 2, 2017 Author Share Posted September 2, 2017 Here's another she got me from the same vineyard. Really like this one! To my eye, looks like a Beaded Periwinkle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 That's a gastropod. No idea on genus/species tho. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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