The Beginning of the Endless "Beach Combing" Collection #1

[InfoHungryMom]

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)

 

 

[Darktooth]

First picture is a TV remote

[InfoHungryMom]

#2  bones and an angel wing fossil shown in another picture

 

 

[InfoHungryMom]

#3

Fossilized oyster cluster with additional fossils embedded

 

[InfoHungryMom]

#4

Better pictures of fossilized "angel wing" shell... looks and feels like a part of a golf ball!

[InfoHungryMom]

#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.

[InfoHungryMom]

#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!

[Darktooth]

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.

[abyssunder]

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.

[snolly50]

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.

[InfoHungryMom]

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!  

[abyssunder]

#5 - The lower one in the middle might be a spondylid ("thorny oyster"), weathered and bioeroded, without the thorns.

[InfoHungryMom]

Thank you, but I don’t understand what could have cause the extreme “disfigurement?” ?

[Harry Pristis]

 

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).

 

[InfoHungryMom]

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!)