Bobby Rico Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 I any ideas on this set of small fossil from Torres Vedras, Portugal. They on a website for sale Thank you cheers Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Not a seed - these are sea urchin spines. This is a sea urchin with attached spines from the Cretaceous, 8 Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted March 24, 2018 Author Share Posted March 24, 2018 @oilshale thank you they looked very bulbous to me to be sea urchin spines but check it out and your good with that ID Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted March 24, 2018 Author Share Posted March 24, 2018 13 minutes ago, oilshale said: Not a seed - these are sea urchin spines. This is a sea urchin with attached spines from the Cretaceous, Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 I agree. Those are cidaroid spines, like the ones from here . 3 " 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...
Bobby Rico Posted March 24, 2018 Author Share Posted March 24, 2018 Thanks @abyssunder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 " In most Portuguese Late Jurassic localities yielding coloured echinid spines, only a few coloured specimens occur among hundreds of colourless spines. " " In the regular echinids Pseudocidaris lusitanica and P. spinosa, coloured blotches occur all over the clubshaped spines. In these organisms, colouration may have been effective as camouflage. " excerpts from S. Schneider & W. Werner. 2007. Colour pattern preservation in Fuersichella n. gen. (Gastropoda: Neritopsoidea), bivalves, and echinid spines from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Beringeria 37: 143-160 4 " 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 March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Yes, cidaroid spines, they sometimes call these ones 'clubs'. I have some Moroccan ones, similar. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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