Rodney Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Any thoughts or species for this fossil snail that I found in south central Ga, I think the deposits in this area are 35 million years and younger. This snail was busted out of a void or crack in a larger rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Looks like a mineralized steinkern to Me. 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 October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 3 hours ago, ynot said: Looks like a mineralized steinkern to Me. What this means is that it would be unlikely that one could determine the species from this. The ornament which would allow identification is almost always on the external surface. Turritella would be a reasonable guess in this situation though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 It looks like it tapers too much for a Turritella, unless there is such a Turritella species that I am unaware of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 1 minute ago, Wrangellian said: It looks like it tapers too much for a Turritella, unless there is such a Turritella species that I am unaware of. My thought is that it is the aperture facing away that causes that appearance. I'm not at all certain though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 I'm not sure either, there may be too much missing to know even that much, but I don't think it should matter which direction the aperture is facing - away might actually be the best direction to judge that the first whorl is a lot bigger than the 2nd, rather than a little bit bigger as in a Turritella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 I'll be late for work if I get out my morphodynamics book now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Hi, I have the impression that on the other side of the Atlantic you are talking about Turritella as soon as a gastropod is unknown. This is not a criticism, but Turritella is a genus of an elongated gastropod, whereas here it is a fairly globular fossil. Is Turritella a common name for you? Here it is a Latin genus designation. Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Agree, not Turritella. Possible family either Fasciolariidae or Buccinidae. "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 2 hours ago, Coco said: have the impression that on the other side of the Atlantic you are talking about Turritella as soon as a gastropod is unknown. Kind of a "one size fits all" situation. That is why I left it at steinkern. 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...
RJB Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Gastropodi unknownus RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 mainly because Turritella sp. is one of the most common gastropod in the US "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...
Rodney Posted October 17, 2018 Author Share Posted October 17, 2018 Thanks for all the replies. I left out the size which is rather small at around 1.8 cm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 4 minutes ago, Rodney said: Thanks for all the replies. I left out the size which is rather small at around 1.8 cm I don't suppose you could give us a shot of the broken (aperture) end looking directly down the axis of the spiral ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paciphacops Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 6 hours ago, RJB said: Gastropodi unknownus Maybe we should call them Chunkopods. "Don't force it, just use a bigger hammer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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