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Fossil that looks like a finger, found in Puerto Rican beach site


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So the beach was recently excavated and what was covered by the ocean for so many years, dried out and the sand was excavated and made into huge dunes full of old seashells and mysterious oysters and conches. I found many bivalves and i stumbled upon this weird stone that is covered in fossil like formations and shells. Any idea what it could be? Is it a fossil? Is it extinct? Its driving me NUTS. 

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I am going to provisionally guess coral. Any chance of seeing a picture of the ends?

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I tried to post more pictures but it says i can only post 3.95 mb. How can I post more pictures?

 

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Try to refresh your browser. 

You can add 3.95 MB per posts - just reply at the bottom of this topic.  ;) 

 

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It looks like a teredinid, maybe Kuphus.

 

" Fossils of the extinct species, Kuphus incrassatus, have been found in rocks in Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Florida and Mississippi. " -

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Kuphus “incrassatus Gabb’’ (p. 719).
Length 62 mm, diameter of anterior end 13.4 mm, diameter of posterior end 6.5 mm. Locality 112a.
USNM 64.7796.

 

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1 hour ago, Nimravis said:

What beach in PR? Or near what city?

Aguadilla puerto rico, where christopher colombus first set foot

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5 minutes ago, GallinaPinta said:

Aguadilla puerto rico, where christopher colombus first set foot

 

A very close friend of mine is from that very area. His father is an archaeologist there. Small world!

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34 minutes ago, GallinaPinta said:

Aguadilla puerto rico, where christopher colombus first set foot

I climb the boulders on the beach when we visit there and my wife has family in Aguada as well as Coamo. We will be out there again in September, I can’t wait.

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