pambosk Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Hello from Cyprus, warm wishes for exciting finds to everyone! Here is a relatively bigger oyster than my usual finds, this one is complete and inside small crystals have formed, could be calcite not sure. Took advantage of the heavy rainfall and found it on muddy collapsing hills north of akrotiri area. I found half, and half a meter further I dug out the other half Perhaps you can better see the small crystals that formed all over inside both parts below Nearby I found also the following: found position, but i think they are not matching and this single one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 " Most of the Tethys or Paratethys, Miocene-Pliocene crassostrids have been assigned to Ostrea crassissima Lamarck, Ostrea (G.) gingensis Schlotheim, Gryphea (C.) gingensis (Schlotheim). In fact, these specimens are accepted as Crassostrea gryphoides (Schlotheim). According to literature (Cossman and Peyrot,1914; Erünal-Erentöz, 1958; Freneix et al., 1971; Laurain, 1980; Videt and Neraudeau, 2002; Ýslamoðlu and Taner, 2003) supporting its names. " excerpt from: I. Hosgor. 2008. Presence of Crassostrea gryphoides (Schlotheim) from the Lower-Middle Miocene sequence of Kahramanmara Basin (SE Turkey); Its taxonomy, paleoecology and paleogeography. Mineral Res. Expl. Bull. 136: 17-28 " 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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