AngelaB Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Good evening. Can anyone tell me what this is? Possibly a Gastropod? We’ve got a stone fence on the property and love to look for fossils! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Scaphopod Teleoconchs 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...
Darktooth Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Welcome to the forum from New York! That is a neat find! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Roughly where in Wisconsin was this found? County? And what are the actual measurements? What other fossils have you found there? Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 shell edge, small cephalopod, Tentaculites, crinoid stem. Lots of possibilities without more info. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Siphuncle of orthoconic nautiloid cephalopod. Stokesoceras 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 4 hours ago, Peat Burns said: Siphuncle of orthoconic nautiloid cephalopod. Stokesoceras Good call, looks right if the geology's OK. Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelaB Posted February 7, 2018 Author Share Posted February 7, 2018 We are located in door County Wisconsin. Midway between baileys harbor and sister bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 According to this geologic map of Wisconsin: Door County looks to have Silurian aged bedrock. Matches with the age of Stokesoceras. Too old for Scaphopods, I think. Sounds like @Peat Burns is on point! Image from HERE. 7 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelaB Posted February 7, 2018 Author Share Posted February 7, 2018 Thank You! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 I agree strongly with Pete. I have collected virtually identical cephalopods from rocks of the same age around Lake Temiskaming, Ontario. Note that these fossils are the siphuncle, which is characteristic. Fossils that include the camerae and external shell are unknown for most species in this group, one only ever finds the siphuncles. Don 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AngelaB Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Thanks for looking everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.N.FossilmanLithuania Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Fossildude19 is correct, the Stokesoceras cephalopod is the best version for ID. Best Regards Domas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalmayshun Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 nice find, south of you, but just north of Green Bay there is a nice little deposit of ordovician material, brachiapods, occasional trilobite with easy access if you are ever in a mind to go hunting. It is near Red Banks...i have seen fossils in many of the stone embankments along Green Bay from Greenbay all the way up the coast...the west side is steep and with the exposed rocks, quite interesting. Again, cool find. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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