InfoHungryMom Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 A few pictures of items already on my computer at work (oops!) As always, I would love to know anything and everything you can share about what they are- Thank you! (Fascinating oyster cluster) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 First picture is a TV remote I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoHungryMom Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 #2 bones and an angel wing fossil shown in another picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoHungryMom Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 #3 Fossilized oyster cluster with additional fossils embedded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoHungryMom Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 #4 Better pictures of fossilized "angel wing" shell... looks and feels like a part of a golf ball! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoHungryMom Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 #5 Lots of stuff! I know/recognize the mussel and the Operculum (that is a fascinating find when still flexible!)... the rest are mysteries to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoHungryMom Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 #6 I found these bones in a dune. They must have been there, exposed to the Sun for so long that they no longer have any "typical bone" weight. Based on the location, I am guessing they belong to a marine mammal.... input, as always, is greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 49 minutes ago, InfoHungryMom said: #6 I found these bones in a dune. They must have been there, exposed to the Sun for so long that they no longer have any "typical bone" weight. Based on the location, I am guessing they belong to a marine mammal.... input, as always, is greatly appreciated! These are most likely modern bones. I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 The oyster cluster in #1looks to have nice encrusting tubeworms and some sponge borings. In #3, in the circled in red area, might be a barnacle base. " 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...
snolly50 Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 3 hours ago, InfoHungryMom said: I found these bones in a dune The two right and left up top have the shape of chevrons. The long bone in the middle has the appearance of a baculum. Marine mammal is a pretty good guess, perhaps dolphin. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, also are remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoHungryMom Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 Thank you! I especially appreciate the identification of the remote. In fact it’s a “Verizon Fios” programmable remote (the king that is supposed to do everything but no matter what you STILL need the television’s original remote!) circa 2014. Good info though, Darktooth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 #5 - The lower one in the middle might be a spondylid ("thorny oyster"), weathered and bioeroded, without the thorns. " 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...
InfoHungryMom Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 Thank you, but I don’t understand what could have cause the extreme “disfigurement?” ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 The "angel wing" is a bony fish quadrate, a bone in the skull. The "wing" is called the preopercular process. It is bone number 5. in the diagram (names in Latin). http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoHungryMom Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 Hi Harry, Not to be disrespectful, because I learned a lot from your post, but in "Beach Combing Verbage"... An "Angel Wing" is an "Angel Wing Clam" or a "Piddock" (aka: cyrtopleura costat, a bivalve mollusk, in the family Pholadidae ) The fossil I have feels and looks like a chunk out of a golf ball (Not quite gutta-percha though! Yeah, I looked this stuff up!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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