BuddingPaleo Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 My eyes are crossing trying to ID these snails and such, and I'm getting mixed times so I can't be right on them. Any help would totally rock. 2 pics each of first three, 3 angles of the fourth and fifth (clams): top, bottom, and seam. I think I got all that right! Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 IDing steinkerns is near impossible, no wonder You are having trouble. 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...
Rockwood Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 The ornament is on the outside. On the inside they all look alike to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddingPaleo Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 Well, stinky. At least I don't feel so useless for not being able to find them. Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronzviking Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 The first one is a beautiful gastropod cast and I think it is a Natica shell. Looking at the shell in hand, what do you think? Natica limbata is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddingPaleo Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 In hand it's too narrow, but this one might for that bill! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronzviking Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Glad you found a match. I agree it is hard for us to tell by the photos what you have. You can look at all the angles and compare sizes and shapes. I suggest you get some reference books to have on hand and in the mean while check out this website to help you ID your shells. It has Southwest Florida Shells with large color photos! Good luck https://www.shellmuseum.org/southwest-florida-shells Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddingPaleo Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 1 minute ago, Bronzviking said: Glad you found a match. I agree it is hard for us to tell by the photos what you have. You can look at all the angles and compare sizes and shapes. I suggest you get some reference books to have on hand and in the mean while check out this website to help you ID your shells. It has Southwest Florida Shells with large color photos! Good luck https://www.shellmuseum.org/southwest-florida-shells Thanks so much for the help! Will certainly check out the site. I'm looking to invest in a couple good reference books, just want them to be right for me. I.e. for dummies. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 many shells are known as steinkerns and are easily identifiable. The fossils in Richards "Cretaceous of New Jersey" book come to mind. In your case though the fossils are known from shelled fossils making it a tad more difficult for identification. If you know your formation you can google the formation name and get information regarding what shells occur there. There may even be pictures of steinkerns already identified as there are in a Tulane Studies paper on Pliocene mollusks from the Goose Creek Limestone in SC. for instance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddingPaleo Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 Bronzviking recently helped me find that out. I looked on fl museum of natural history website, but yeah, most are from the actual shell or there were just not enough features I could match to tell between candidates. But I'm gonna keep working on it! I'll look into your suggestions! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 I know that isn't in question, but I think I can see large amount of bierosional trace fossils on your specimens, especially the patterns of the tiny picture below caught my eyes, which , I guess, could be assigned to Entobia. Can you take a focused close-up picture of it? " 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...
BuddingPaleo Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 Sure. Here ya go. And I love the scenic route of IDing stuff. Cool thing to spot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddingPaleo Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 Could it be this stuff? I did an extremely rough arthritic tracing in the first shot because the pattern is so hard to see in photos. Then a zoom out so you can put it in context. It's pervasive, that's for sure. Last shot is same piece, just closeup of the little balls it usually has. They reminded me of the clam's scars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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