Menorca Fossil ID Please?

[Leedsichthys96]

Hi guys, hope everyone is good,

A friend gave me this as he wasn't sure it was a fossil and said he found it in Menorca, he says inland a fair bit, couldn't remember the exact locality.

Is this a fossil, if so any ideas?

Thanks and all the best

[Fossildude19]

Hello!

This looks like a gastropod operculum.

Possibly fossil, but could be modern. 

Regards,

[Leedsichthys96]

Oh yes that looks to be it, nice one thank you for that ID  

[Oxytropidoceras]

Go look at:

 

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Gastropod opercula from

the Pliocene of Cyprus Mark Wilson January 22nd, 2016

https://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2016/01/22/woosters-fossils-of-the-week-gastropod-opercula-from-the-pliocene-of-cyprus/

 

A web site about the Menorca’s geology.

http://www.geologiamenorca.org/en/

http://www.geologiamenorca.org/en/historia-geologica-de-menorca/

http://www.geologiamenorca.org/en/punts-dinteres-geologic/

 

That web site has a list pf papers at;

http://www.geologiamenorca.org/en/menorca-geology-centre/publications-menorca-geological-centre/

 

Yours,

Paul H.

[supertramp]

16 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Hello!

This looks like a gastropod operculum.

Possibly fossil, but could be modern. 

Regards,

yes, maybe Bolma (rugosa) - (c) in figure https://www.google.it/search?q=bolma+rugosa&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUnt-a887WAhXBuhQKHRBBBacQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=637#imgrc=qRs42uUf6KiddM:

[Leedsichthys96]

I'll give those a read today, thanks for all that really appreciated