Lioness Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Hi! I'm new member. Maybe You can help me identify this fossil? Found it in the beach Pavilosta, Latvia. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DatFossilBoy Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Think it might be an echinoid but not sure. Cool find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lioness Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 Thank you! It's something similar, but I don't think it is echinoid. Shape is different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 No idea but I don’t think echinoid not that I’m an echinoid collector. Welcome to the forum John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Moved topic to Fossil ID. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Steinkern from a brachiopod. or maybe a bivalve ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 20 minutes ago, Rockwood said: Steinkern from a brachiopod. or maybe a bivalve ? Brachiopod; the individual valves are left-right symmetrical, and different from each other. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike from North Queensland Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Just a guess - tilly bone from a modern fish ? Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 19 minutes ago, Auspex said: Brachiopod; the individual valves are left-right symmetrical, and different from each other. Between this site and searching for bearings to fit a horse drawn (originally) sickle mower my spacial recognition neurons have about had it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 I am with auspex... looks like a very worn brahiopod steinkern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 3 minutes ago, jpc said: I am with auspex... looks like a very worn brahiopod steinkern. So I was seeing it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 4 minutes ago, Rockwood said: So I was seeing it right. well... only if you think we might be right. For my part, I would bet on educated guess rather than right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lioness Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 1 hour ago, jpc said: well... only if you think we might be right. For my part, I would bet on educated guess rather than right. It's totally different from Brachiopod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 45 minutes ago, Lioness said: It's totally different from Brachiopod. Are you comparing it to images of the shell ? Steinkerns are a cast of the inside of the shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 36 minutes ago, jpc said: well... only if you think we might be right. For my part, I would bet on educated guess rather than right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lioness Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 10 minutes ago, Rockwood said: Are you comparing it to images of the shell ? Steinkerns are a cast of the inside of the shell. I understand that. But no one brachiopod Steinkern have a middle line. they have look a like side lines, but not a middle line. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 3 minutes ago, Lioness said: But no one brachiopod Steinkern have a middle line. They all have a line. It's where the two valves meet. A line shaped like this I have to admit is a better question though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike from North Queensland Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Look at the section of the specimen circled the exposed area looks more like an internal bone structure. If this was a steinkern the inner infill material would be uniform with the external material. Looks like a modern hyperostosic bone from a fish. Mike 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoast Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 I'm not seeing brachiopod here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 I don't think it's a brachiopod. Fish bit seems more likely to me. 2 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_l Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 internal mold of a brachiopod Howard_L http://triloman.wix.com/kentucky-fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/11/2019 at 6:54 PM, Mike from North Queensland said: If this was a steinkern the inner infill material would be uniform with the external material. Not if the inside was filled with soluble or otherwise mobile material after the initial burial. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Was it a surface find? How large is the specimen? Does it float in saltwater? Does react to HCl or vinegar? Were there other fossil in the same location? Try to determine its hardness. 1 " 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...
Rockwood Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Well if you want to get all scientific about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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