Several fossils collected many years ago in the Loire Valley, France. Can anyone identify the time period/formation they might have originated in?

[TRexEliot]

I found these in the fields of a vineyard I stayed in as a kid almost 20 years ago. Unfortunately, I don't know the exact location as I wasn't being very meticulous about documentation in my collecting back then. There are three echinoids and a bivalve as well as what I believe is some type of coral. Besides that, there's also an odd-shaped silicified brown rock, which I think may be a coprolite, though it may not be a fossil at all. There's also a strange shaped little lump that looks like perhaps part of a very weathered trilobite, though it could be something completely different or nothing at all. If anyone can give me any information about these, I'd be very grateful!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 13 by TRexEliot

[TRexEliot]

@Coco

[mighty micraster]

I think they are upper cretaceous, the echinoids maybe  micraster and the bivalve maybe spondylus?

 

The dark rock (item four), I think is just a rock.

Edited November 13 by mighty micraster

[TqB]

I agree Upper Cretaceous. I think you have a couple of sponges there, especially the one just after the echinoids.

[ted coulianos]

Agree that the photos after the echinoids are sponges -nice find, but ID is problematic; the bivalve I think is a Cretaceous scallop similar to Pecten (Chlamys) subalpinus  from the Goodland limestone of Texas.

[Coco]

I agree with the Cretaceous, without being able to identify the places of finds. Do you remember the department ? Indre-et-Loire ? Maine-et-Loire ? This would already tighten the provenance. Is the region of Saumur speak to you ?

 

Coco

[fifbrindacier]

It looks very much like the Senonian fossils i use to find in the Loir-et-Cher near Blois.