Bill Thompson Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 South of Alpine Texas Marine fossils found. Probably middle Cretaceous. Not oysters. Thickness 1/4 inch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 I'd suggest it's a fragment of a rudist shell. The porous interior is characteristic. Don 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Thompson Posted September 9, 2017 Author Share Posted September 9, 2017 Much of this is found. All flat. Bottom flat also. I don't believe it is rudist. Also most Rudist when broken has a porous (bonelike) texture where it is broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 50 minutes ago, Bill Thompson said: Much of this is found. All flat. Bottom flat also. I don't believe it is rudist. Also most Rudist when broken has a porous (bonelike) texture where it is broken. Could this be an attachment point for the rudist? If it's not a rudist colony, all I can think of is coral ( or maybe bryozoan, or incredibly less likely, paleodictyum) , but I am not skilled in this area. “...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 September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Can we have pictures from all sides of the specimen? " 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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