drbush Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Hi friends Mary cretinism , yesterday i was in my favorite fossil hunting ground and went deeper into cretaceous area and i found this , it is a 1st for me , it is small coin size (1 inch wide) , black (volcanic color and feel ?) honey cells shape ....what could it be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 I see /read something here that might be entirely misconstrued. I'd consider adjusting your phraseology. Your wording is slightly curious. Then again,might be just me NB.: you might also completely disregard me,because i am NOT a moderator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douvilleiceras Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 31 minutes ago, doushantuo said: I see /read something here that might be entirely misconstrued. I'd consider adjusting your phraseology. Your wording is slightly curious. Then again,might be just me NB.: you might also completely disregard me,because i am NOT a moderator Considering the time of year, I think the phrase "Mary cretinism" is an auto-corrected misspelling of "Merry Christmas." 1 Regards, Jason "Trilobites survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic era: who are we johnny-come-latelies to label them as either ‘primitive’ or ‘unsuccessful’? Men have so far survived half a per cent as long." - Richard Fortey, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 ^^^ this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Bony scute is what comes to mind. Glyptodon ? Could you be that far up ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnbuckeye Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Scute likely. But I had found a Devonian pleurodictium coral at Penn Dixie this summer that had a very similar look. So maybe a coral. Here is a example I found on line: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 I think it is a scute, from what I do not know. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbush Posted December 25, 2017 Author Share Posted December 25, 2017 sorry for my pooooor English i meant Merry Christmas to all 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbush Posted December 25, 2017 Author Share Posted December 25, 2017 thank you v.much it looks like Pleurodictyum lenticulare ...... Merry Christmas all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 1 hour ago, drbush said: thank you v.much it looks like Pleurodictyum lenticulare ...... Merry Christmas all At first glance, it certainly appears to be a Pleurodictyum, but these tabulate corals only existed during the Paleozoic era. If the stratigraphy at your site is really cretaceous, then you'll have to rule that out and start from scratch. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 Ankylosaur would be age appropriate. It seems reasonable to think that this would fit the ontogenetic series of some genus, but I can't say for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 On 24 décembre 2017 at 8:07 AM, Douvilleiceras said: Considering the time of year, I think the phrase "Mary cretinism" is an auto-corrected misspelling of "Merry Christmas." Yeah, i'm sure, that's a mistake and nothing more. The Muslims have two feasts : Aid and Aid el Kebir. In french "the" is translated by "le" and when before a word that begins with a vowel we write it with an apostrophe, so, when we say "the Aid" it is written "l'Aid". But a lot of papers make the mistake to write it "Laid", and "Laid" means ugly. So, once, i made the mistake to wish a friend a well "Laid el Kebir". That made him laugh a lot and he told me that for the Muslims, Aid was as wonderful as Christmas for the Christians. 5 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 I'd say it's a scleractinian coral, like the one below. picture from here 1 " 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...
Tidgy's Dad Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 29 minutes ago, fifbrindacier said: Yeah, i'm sure, that's a mistake and nothing more. The Muslims have two feasts : Aid and Aid el Kebir. In french "the" is translated by "le" and when before a word that begins with a vowel we write it with an apostrophe, so, when we say "the Aid" it is written "l'Aid". But a lot of papers make the mistake to write it "Laid", and "Laid" means ugly. So, once, i made the mistake to wish a friend a well "Laid el Kebir". That made him laugh a lot and he told me that for the Muslims, Aid was as wonderful as Christmas for the Christians. Indeed! The Big Eid, Eid el Kebir is a joyous time, lots of food and three days or more of celebrations, families come together and an awful lot is done for the poor and needy. It is much like Christmas, less the alcohol! 2 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 43 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Indeed! The Big Eid, Eid el Kebir is a joyous time, lots of food and three days or more of celebrations, families come together and an awful lot is done for the poor and needy. It is much like Christmas, less the alcohol! It is a feast for the end of Ramadan. In french we have the word ramdam to speak about something that makes a lot of noise, it is a deformation of the word ramadan, because at Aid (or Eid, the "a" isn't pronounced), there is a lot of music, shouts, laugh and happy children with their gifts and sweets. 1 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 2 minutes ago, fifbrindacier said: It is a feast for the end of Ramadan. In french we have the word ramdam to speak about something that makes a lot of noise, it is a deformation of the word ramadan, because at Aid (or Eid, the "a" isn't pronounced), there is a lot of music, shouts, laugh and happy children with their gifts and sweets. No, the Eid at the end of Ramadan is Eid al-Fitr, the celebration of the end of fasting, The Eid el-Kebir is the bigger of the two and celebrates Abraham being prepared to sacrifice his son for his love of Allah. Both are marvelous, though I am not a Muslim myself. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 As far as i remember, Aid el Kebir is 40 days after the end of Fasting, isn't it ? "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbush Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 1st of all i wish it was an Ankylosaur it well be the discovery of my life but i found 6 almost identical fossils at the same site and after researching more , the site is between Jurassic rock formation and early cretaceous formation , I know that Pleurodictyum lenticulare is very old . so what could it be , i think it could be a type of coral and it looks like Pleurodictyum sp.? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 I agree with @abyssunder, it is a kind of scleratinian coral. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Here's a similar Cretaceous coral from Iraq. From this paper - http://kurdistan-geology.com/?p=272 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 4 hours ago, fifbrindacier said: As far as i remember, Aid el Kebir is 40 days after the end of Fasting, isn't it ? Nearer 60 but both festivals depend on the lunar calendar and sightings of the moon, so dates of both can vary. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 I think @Al Dente, is narrowing it. You can join the facebook page of Geology of Kurdistan : http://www.facebook.com/GeologyInKurdistan to ask them if they know what kind of coral it is. You can also look on this site : http://www.afghan-arabiawild.com/Saudi Arabian Fossils Homepage.htm 1 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 You might also ask for an identification here. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Does it react to an acid ? If it doesn't scute it still in the running. It's that lower left photo that I can't quite shake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbush Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 this the fossil from the side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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