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Hi,

I found those pieces in a Maastrichtian limestone strata of the SE of the Pyrenees.

Size (large):

1 - 25 mm

2 - 37 mm

3 - 39 mm

My guess is genus Ceratostreon, and specifically Ceratostreon pliciferum for Nr.3.

Thanks,

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I don't know about the species but it sure looks like Ceratostreon from the Texas Albian.

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There are very nice Beekite rings on the specimens (visible mostly in the last picture). :) (just to add)

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Thanks a lot MikeR  and abyssunder.

 

Beekite rings appear from time to time in fossil shells around here, but I didn't know what they are.

 

Thanks to you I've learned one thing more.

 

 

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This is a kind of calcite crystals that form un rings.

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" 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. "

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Ceratostreon, for sure.:)

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"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."

 

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