Shell Fossils From Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

[MrBones]

Hi there,

I'm busy working on documenting the fossils I've found in the UAE in a word document (which I plan on uploading to the forum) and will be needing some help to identify them.

All of these fossils are from the same site. They're from the Eocene of Al Ain, found close to Jebel Hafeet.

I would appreciate any ID's, even if they are not to genus/species level, as I would like to have something to say about each fossil in the citations.

 

The pencil marking on the black paper background is 1 cm (about 0.4 inches) long. Sorry if the fossils are too small in the pictures. I had to take the pictures on a tripod and this was the max zoom I could get on the lens.

 

I will be posting more of these as I sort through my collection in the coming weeks

 

1: oyster?

2. Spondylus sp.

3. Spondylus sp.

4. Spondylus sp.

 

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8. paper fig (Ficoidea)?

9. steinkern, I know they're hard to id

10. Cowrie (Cypraeidae)?

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13. oyster?

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Edited December 8, 2024 by MrBones

[MrBones]

15. Oyster?

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