Misha Posted January 12, 2020 Author Share Posted January 12, 2020 19 hours ago, Shamalama said: Nuculites oblongatus I am not seeing a fold in there, I just found another part of the animal, here's what it looks like now: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Now that I can see the hinge line better, I agree with your initial ID 100%. Nice to have both pieces to make the shell whole. 2 -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted January 12, 2020 Author Share Posted January 12, 2020 3 hours ago, Shamalama said: Now that I can see the hinge line better, I agree with your initial ID 100%. Nice to have both pieces to make the shell whole. Thanks for the help Dave, It was definitely a nice surprise to find the other part of the shell in my pile of matrix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted January 26, 2020 Author Share Posted January 26, 2020 As I continue weathering shale from PD, I have found a new mystery, I think this is a gastropod but I am not sure of genus or species, Maybe @Fossildude19 or @Shamalama can tell me about it? Thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 15 hours ago, Misha said: As I continue weathering shale from PD, I have found a new mystery, I think this is a gastropod but I am not sure of genus or species, Maybe @Fossildude19 or @Shamalama can tell me about it? Thank you very much. Looks like a small Platyceras or Nanticonema type gastropod. What is the scale? Is it planispiral (coil is overlaps but stays flat as shell increases in size) or conispiral (coil overlaps on an angle and forms a cone shape)? 1 -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 I agree with Dave. I would go with Naticonema on this. Cropped, brightened: 3 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...
Misha Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 18 minutes ago, Shamalama said: Looks like a small Platyceras or Nanticonema type gastropod. What is the scale? Is it planispiral (coil is overlaps but stays flat as shell increases in size) or conispiral (coil overlaps on an angle and forms a cone shape)? The shell is about a centimeter in diameter, and it is not easy to tell but from what I can see it is conispiral. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 @Fossildude19 @Shamalama Thank you for the input, I have learned so much from you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 Hello everyone, I haven't posted on here in a while but just found this item while breaking up a large piece of shale. It was hard to photograph it as the thing is only around 3mm wide. It comes from the Windom shale and is preserved in the same color as trilobites I have found there. Some of the item is still in the rock but a profile view of it shows a U shape. I haven't seen anything like this from here I originally thought that it may be a hypostome but it appears too round and the shape doesn't seem to match the hypostomes I have seen. Sorry that the pictures aren't great, it was hard to get it in focus as it is so small. Any help is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 There is also this object that I have had for a while, I am guessing that this one is actually a Greenops or Bellacartwrightia hypostome imprint. The domed part is 5mm wide but if you include the projections out to the side it is around 1 cm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 Don't know how much this will help but I took some pictures of object 1 under a microscope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Hard to tell with # 1, but I would lean toward a Bellerophontid gastropod of some sort. 1 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...
Misha Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 6 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said: Hard to tell with # 1, but I would lean toward a Bellerophontid gastropod of some sort. Thanks Tim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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